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Talk:Clawback

message: Don Holbrook 16:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

message: as per a recent New Yorker piece. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 23:47, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Your wording makes it sound as though it's the Wikipedia article making the case, rather than the New Yorker article. 99.46.137.58 (talk) 03:14, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Compromise - I've reverted the article to my original wording and format while also cut-and-pasting your own text from the latest edit directly in to that reversion. If you find a way to have a problem with that, 99.46.137.58, you're going to want to make it a very well-supported objection. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 16:36, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  reoriented the article 

message: I'm not sure that you have the right New Yorker reference - I read the referenced article and there is no mention of "clawbacks."  A clawback is not deferred compensation.  It is when pay IS given up front, but with the right to take it back later.  I'm not going to get into an edit war, but the article is now inaccurate.  Bobcharli (talk) 02:26, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The article in The New Yorker indeed makes extensive reference to the term and concept of "clawbacks" and does indeed say, based on interviews with economists, that it is probably a way for many firms to basically fake their way out of increased regulation by going hey, look, we're taming our practices by instituting these clawback provisions. The article in The New Yorker makes clear that while it would be better for these companies to simply not pay any bonuses at all, and to slash executive salaries, instead they are doing an on-the-cheap method of saying hey, we'll claw back these bonuses if the products fail, see, we're being humanitarian in our own way! It's a sick game, and the New Yorker article makes that clear, but it's still something the finance firms love to pull, because it makes them look like they're doing something when in reality they aren't doing jack. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 19:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  what New Yorker Article? 

message: Frankly, surprised no mention.  This arena offers a tremendous avenue to raid or loot a company's assets by insiders.  The Anthony Foxx, US transportation Secretay, is named as defendant, August 2015, with DesignLine.--Wikipietime (talk) 15:53, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bankruptcy application 

message: "Typical measures are:
 1.number of created jobs over 5 or 10 years
 2.annual payroll
 3.amount of capital investment over a similar time frame, and
 4.amount of depreciated value in a given time."
:*This makes almost no sense. Hard to tell if these are generic clawback measurements, general financial analysis measurement, measurements germane to Sarbannes-Oxley or Dodd-Frank, etc. Please comment to describe what this is supposed to mean. Otherwise I'm going to do a complete re-write. 10stone5 (talk) 21:38, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background Section
Talk:Nurture

message: was assigned an assignment in psychology, to do a debate on nature vs. nurture, and my topic assigned was nurture. I believe that we inherit through our nature our personality when we are new borns. But as we grow up and mature nuture takes its rule in the rest of our lives. Nurture plays the biggest part in our growing lives, because our own experiences are what form our personalities.66.193.128.97 20:40, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  October 2006
Talk:U.S. Route 460 in Virginia

message: Additions:
;Buchanan
12.83 or 11.21
*1932 6.38 Grundy towards Kentucky
*1936 5.20 extension
This roughly adds up. --NE2 04:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

message: It seems notable, as the tallest bridge (actually two bridges) in Virginia and the largest design-build project in the Commonwealth. Per http://amtengineering.com/markets/transportation/highways-bridges/2275-2/ :
See also:
*https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Tallest-bridge-in-Virginia-may-finally-open-to-traffic-next-year-510372791.html
*https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/virginia/buchanan-route-460-connector-thrill-va/
*https://www.asbi-assoc.org/projectGallery/project.cfm?articleID=86F21819-F94A-929C-647F7661B66058B6
*https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local/connector-cfx-construction-projects-moving-forward-in-swva/article_c9fc4bc2-96b9-11e3-afd9-001a4bcf6878.html
*https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/buchanan-co-bridge-tallest-in-virginia-may-finally-open-to-traffic-next-year/
*https://www.bdtonline.com/news/local_news/virginia-s-tallest-bridge-going-up-near-grundy/article_ecfd28f0-1eab-59ae-9407-d17e66110352.html
*https://www.bdtonline.com/news/local_news/13-miles-to-go/article_a905637a-a90f-535a-9c1d-3ec0ab044221.html
This bridge is also referenced in Wilson Creek Bridge. It's been described as another of these bridges to nowhere, at least until it's opened to traffic, but apparently some scofflaws are already driving around the orange cones and strategically placed piles of gravel and using it.
Oh, maybe this was a reference to it? ? WarGamesRoom (talk) 19:02, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The "this" link refers to a never-completed route between Petersburg and Suffolk.  Current route, with Petersburg in the northwest.  Something in Buchanan County is very far away; Route from Petersburg to Grundy, the Buchanan County seat.  Nyttend (talk) 02:38, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where should we mention the Route 460 Connector bridges over Grassy Creek in Buchanan County?
Talk:Thomas Tallis School

message: I've removed this section  which was recently added by an IP.. A student from the school committed a crime. It didn't happen at the school, or at a school event, or on a school trip. I don't see how it needs to be covered in this article. Some students commit crimes, but that is not sufficient to warrant including reports of such crimes in school articles. Meters (talk) 05:41, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Murder of CJ Rickard
Talk:Wilhelm Pieck

message: This is a very poor article: ignorant, biased, and badly written. I have cut out most of the unsourced guff and one glaring error of fact (the SPD leadership supported World War I from beginning to end), but it needs more material from someone who knows more details. I'll see what I can find. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 02:46, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: I added a translation of the following from German Wiki:  "Während die beiden ermordet wurden, gelang ihm die Flucht." Sca (talk) 15:57, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Escape

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 00:08, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]]
Talk:Relativistic particle

message: Really, I don't think that it is INTRINSICALLY related to the direction this particle should be going, so it's also a means of trimming down the list as it's quite large now. There are links, but I think that it's a better idea to make sure this article is maintained to stop the list from just ending up as a huge list of particles which are specified or work noticeably within the confines of special or general relativity or implications thereof. The page redirected, and it was just a bad idea for an addition. Uxorion 19:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  rm of "Oh my god particle" 

message: I don't think it is this page only...in fact after checking, it is any page.
I've noticed this happens in MSEdge on and off, and there does not appear to be a pattern or obvious (to me anyway) reason. For example, on this page, equation (1) appears as
$ E^{2}=(p{\textrm {c}})^{2}+\left(m_{0}{\textrm {c}}^{2}\right)^{2}\, $
I tried different "tricks" in the editor, but nothing appears to work.
Chrome and Firefox do not have this problem (this is probably also true for other html readers, but have not checked. Joe wiki eds (talk) 00:10, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  LaTex not rendering when using MS-Edge.
Talk:Mihna

message: Salatintoo has rewritten the Mihna article from the bottom up; however, I'm not sure that the rewritten article is better than the original...
Salatinoo has written a very biased report of the Mihna; it is completely and totally neglecting both Sunni and Shi'ite interpretations and focuses on trying to mitigate the role of the Mutazilates - a role that all Sunni histories mention. 
I think the article needs someone else to add to it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.132.144.144 (talk) 18:14, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Sunni histories do indeed blame the Mu'tazila, and perhaps someone should write a paragraph on the backlash against all things Mu'tazilite that occurred after the mihna, but the historical research of Nawas and the others makes fairly clear that it's not entirely fair to blame the Mu'tazilites, I think. So I think the article is good enough for the most part... Paul Willocx (talk) 16:51, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite
Talk:Relaxation (physics)

message: I think the German version "Relaxationszeit" can be linked to this?
xy (talk) 19:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

message: I intend to remove this section because it is of minor relevance to the topic (it confuses instead of clarifying things). If nobody has anything against, I will replace this section with what I consider the best example of characteristic/relaxation time: that of the RC circuit. Mgnelu (talk) 01:39, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Amorphous solids
Talk:King Booker's Court

message: what about the little bastard is he a part of the court Bencey 17:14, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Little Bastard
Talk:Reversible dynamics

message: This article seems to me to be the same topic as is covered in time reversibility. Does anyone have a strong objection to the prospect of merging the two, or a feeling about which title would be better for the combined article? -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 16:29, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 19:10, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible merger with [[time reversibility]]?
Talk:Rotating radio transient

message: Noticing a very old merge tag on the page (this revision; tagged since September), I merged the two. Rotating radio transients was largely a duplicate article, even citing one of the same sources. Fortunately, both are small enough so that merging consists of adding a source and changing one into a redirect. Ourai т с 02:48, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge from [[Rotating radio transients]]

message: Maybe none are notable (apart from RRAT J1819-1458) ? - Rod57 (talk) 08:58, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should we list or tabulate some notable ones
Talk:Michael Masley

message: Hi, I created this page to start an article on Michael Masley. I came across a series of his tapes for sale, and have enjoyed them immensly. I only had a couple of sources, and am in the early stages of this page. I'm not an expert wikipedian by any stretch, and I'm not sure how to reference sources. Any help in creating this page would be useful. I live near Berkeley, and if I happen to come across Mr. Masley while I have a camera in hand, I might be able to add a picture. Otherwise I'm hoping that either the Artist General, or a friend would help out. Thanks! TJ 17:27, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be willing to help if you can tell me what you used to write it. Is it the webpages at the bottom? Feel free to leave me a note on my talk page. --Falcorian (talk) 06:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Statement from article creator

message: Each reference to a legal matter needs to have an inline citation, otherwise it needs to be removed. someone reading this needs to have easy access to sources for potentially libelous material. i will either try to provide the inline refs, or remove the legal stuff, but not immediately. I know at least one reference does mention at least one of the legal matters.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 20:32, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: legal matters
Talk:HMS Crab (fictional Hornblower vessel)

message: I commented on the merge suggestions here.  --  Geo Swan 17:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Once the above is sorted, mebbe move this to the unqualified name? Cheers, Jack Merridew 15:55, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[HMS Crab]]
Talk:N-body simulation

message: This page seems heavily biased toward cosmological N-body simulations. Editing by people working in other N-body fields might give it more balance.
Mentioning the "Millenium Simulation" by name seems inappropriate. This is just one of thousands of important simulations. 1210Poppy (talk) 09:15, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur; this article appears to be too domain-specific. There are many systems which are essentially n-body problems (see dynamical systems and the use of statistical methods are applicable (for example, the use of Monte Carlo methods). Cowbert (talk) 09:51, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Other fields

message: The January proposal to merge Softening to here seems sensible as it gives that stub more context. Klbrain (talk) 20:06, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 12:01, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: — Assignment last updated by Ghusheng (talk) 05:07, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Astroparticle Physics
Talk:Self-amplified spontaneous emission

message: I explicitly shortened the passage about coherence because this is a highly discussed topic but I extended the explanation of micro-bunching because this is essential. I intend to also add an figure that shows the exponential amplification and visualizes the structure of an micro-bunched eBeam. I want to use http://photon-science.desy.de/sites/site_photonscience/content/e58/e186104/e186305/e186344/e186372/e196992/e186376/Chapter2_p12_2_eng.jpg and I already asked DESY for approval to use it on wikipedia. I will add when I get a reply. There is still a ton of references missing. Other suggestions?Maderthaner (talk) 19:09, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I did a bunch of copy-editing (pun not intended ;-). Since you asked for suggestions: I think we should explain why the slightly higher speed of the photons leads to microbunching, and why a reduced phase space leads to exponential gain (and what that is). Also: is the light really characteristic of the undulator length? Isn't the length just giving the intensity, while other characteristics of the emitted light, most notably the wavelength, are given by the undulator's period and magnetic field together with the electron beam energy? — HHHIPPO 22:23, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your comment and edits; I think those are great! I absolutely like your two suggestions and I think we should elaborate on those points. I also stumbled over the undulator "length" when writing it. I just looked it up again and what I actually meant was the undulator "period". However, it looks like a better parameter would be the undulator "strength" K because it is actually the magnetic field B and the undulator period that are tuning the wavelength (besides electron specific values). I've corrected this.Maderthaner (talk) 02:14, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

text: I edited again and tried to elaborate on your two comments. To really explain why the gain is exponential, I think, we actually need some formulas. I will try to add that in a next step. No update on the DESY figure yet but if I can use an figure from this APS article (10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.10.034801) by citing it we could get around the DESY one... Can I? --Maderthaner (talk) 20:29, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent changes and figure
Talk:Self-focusing transducers

message: The phenomenon does exist and does have it's practical use. However, it has to be described in terms of interference of plane wave and edge wave that occurs in the near field. The near-field article is not that good either and it doesn't mention near field phenomenon in acoustics at all.
Topic cries for some drawings, i'll prepare them sometime soon.
Jerzydziewierz (talk) 00:18, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  About phenomenon
Template talk:Story

message: The template is firmly grounded in no Wikipedia policy or guideline. (A direct request was made to its creator for the basis on which it was written. There was no response. A check of user contributions indicates that the author has not been active on Wikipedia for a month.) Obviously, many virtues of the good story and, particularly, of the good essay are identical to those of a good encyclopedia article: clarity, precision, structural logic, narrative flow. The primary distinction is that a Wikipedia article must be written from a neutral point of view, particularly on controversial matters—there are many existing templates that more clearly flag that issue. This template seems best geared to promote sterile, lifeless writing. In order to gauge how it is actually applied, the first ten articles tagged with the template (as listed on the its "What links here" page) were examined. In eight out of ten cases, there is not a single word of discussion on the article's Talk page supporting the tag; in the other two, a single sentence refers the reader to a third Talk page that talks generally about a set of articles, without offering any specific evidence of a problem or guidance on its solution. The template is thus virtually useless in actual practice, clearly redundant even where it might be useful, and counterproductive in spirit. It shoud be deleted.—DCGeist 17:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Follow-up: In fact, when the Tfd was filed, the template's author responded in short order on the "Wikipedia:Templates for deletion" page. Please see there for the full discussion.—DCGeist 21:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Case for deletion
Talk:Shake (unit)

message: Want to help write or improve articles about Time? Join WikiProject Time or visit the Time Portal for a list of articles that need improving. -- Yamara 13:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Time/Assessment|WikiProject Time assessment rating]] comment 

message: That is the original expression (not 'two'), and the specific nuclear reaction takes 30 nanoseconds.  Certainly not a crisis, but it shuold be right.
Kdq (talk) 05:11, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so. The historical article cites teh expression as two exclusively.  And the generation time is, I believe, pretty much 10 nanoseconds.  I've never heard of any other value. SkoreKeep (talk) 01:49, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three shakes of a lamb's tail.
Talk:Signal velocity

message: Can we have front velocity different to signal velocity? Say, slow (negative even) phase velocity but fast (positive) group velocity, so that most of the time the front slides backward but at regular intervals it jumps forward instantaneously: how would you average the front velocity? Cesiumfrog (talk) 02:39, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

message: This sentence could use a citation: 
: However, in a few special cases (e.g., media designed to amplify the front-most parts of a pulse and then attenuate the back section of the pulse), group velocity can exceed the speed of light in vacuum, while the signal velocity will still be less than or equal to the speed of light in vacuum.
Crabpot8 (talk) 20:13, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Needed
Talk:Trees in mythology

message: Wikified as part of the Wikification wikiproject! JubalHarshaw 17:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Cultures that see trees as sacred, and/or that have trees as important in their mythologies, don't actually "worship" the trees. The closest may be puja offered to tulasi in Hinduism, but even that is about honouring the spirit who has in mythology sometimes taken the form of the tree. I propose a move/rename. Perhaps to Sacred trees, which already redirects here. - CorbieV☊☼ 20:56, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Worship" is inappropiate name 

message: I came across this reference about tree-symbolism among Inca's, I suppose this reference will be helpful to the  article if some one one works upon the same.
Mahitgar (talk) 10:21, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inca tree-symbolism 

message: How is it that many parts of the world have been extensively researched on trees in mythology yet Africa has only been mentioned  twice? I come from a tribe in Kenya where an African fig tree 'mukuyu' is honoured as the shrine of God( yes God, not gods). Lets discuss trees in African mythology. George Kiritu Chege (talk) 08:45, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trees in African mythology. 

message: This article is not about "trees in mythology" but the concept of the "sacred" tree. It is the singular to sacred grove's plural. Currently, this article treats the word mythology as a synonym for non-Abrahamic religions. That is not OK. Please move this article to sacred tree—which is currently a redirect to this page—and let's go from there. :bloodofox: (talk) 03:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: To resolve this issue, I've rebooted sacred tree. :bloodofox: (talk) 18:30, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to "Sacred Tree": "Mythology" is not a synonym for "non-Abrahamic religion"
Talk:Palace of Zarzuela

message: There're no references on this article. Please post some or let's delete the article. Also, some content (The atmosphere is one of simplicity, comfort and family, for example) is highly un-encyclopedic. --Karljoos (talk) 20:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Or Palace of "La" Zarzuela (the common name for the place)? But that would mean changing the article title and links to it, for example under King Juan Carlos. Ombudswiki (talk) 15:47, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 
Talk:Dynamic spectrum management

message: The source information in this article is dead. All of it. We're going to need to find new source material to back up all of the claims in this article, or possibly find the same sources in updated URLs. I may do that soon. Putting this on my watchlist in the meantime. Meşteşugarul  - U 10:19, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  References are all dead 
Talk:Solar physics

message: I've added a section on the history of solar physics and a few details about current research projects looking at the Sun. 
Careless Torque (talk) 21:29, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  History and projects on solar physics 

message: The usage of  is under discussion, see talk:Solar Physics (journal) -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 08:13, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "{{noredirect|Solar Physics}}"
Talk:Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment

message: I've marked a couple of things for clarification and one as dubious:
* What velocities are measured? velocities and irregularities of electrical fields implies measuring the velocity of a moving field. This seems unlikely (so needs explaining if correct). It seems more likely that it's the velocity of charged particles from the solar wind or created by their collisions with air molecules.
* Transmission frequencies. The article says each antenna transmits "on fixed frequencies in the 8–20 MHz range". It seems more likely that each antenna transmits on a single frequency from that range. But it's also possible that each antenna covers a small band of frequencies simultaneously, so 16 antennas can cover more than 16 frequencies. Either way, it needs to be clearer.
* How many antennas? Taken together, Using a total of 16 antennas and The three stations' ranges overlap to cover most of the Antarctic continent seem to directly contradict the photo. This shows fourteen antennas and part of a fifteenth, all at one location. I think each station must have an array of 16. Musiconeologist (talk) 23:21, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing and contradictory details