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Talk:Horizontalidad

message: I updated this by translating the current version of this article  in Spanish and rearranging it slightly. Most of this content I've added is total junk and doesn't really say much, but I figured this could be a small step toward something more substantive. --Brian Z 05:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Total Junk indeed.  I'll be adding some more content from written works that will be much better. Marc Mywords 17:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Update through translation

message: Interesting how basically the same idea when contra-posed into federalism, ala, pillarization or 'vertical federalism' is essentially the same kind of power-sharing conception; but in a different orientation (up-down = vertical / side-to-side = horizontal). (because it is bifurcated/federated rights stacked over one jurisdiction rather than spread out over geographic distance "horizontally"... yet here they mean hierarchy is the vertical aspect in opposition to' capitated rights'; but that is something which federalism already by itself in name implies; thus they can implant another aspect to its systematization for being horizontal or vertical.). Interesting how another angle of the some conceptual analogy will mean the same thing in opposite terms/tenses. 4.242.174.243 (talk) 13:49, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Horizontal" governance/control/organization versus "Vertical" 

message: As a specific term, horizontalidad is attributed to the radical movements that sprouted in Argentina after the economic crisis of 2001
This might have been when the term was made popular globally, but it's not the origin. You can easily find (in Google Books, for example) books talking about horizontalidad in the 90's, and some references even back to 70's. --158.42.239.200 (talk) 08:15, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

message: I am wondering if anyone knows how horizontalidad is faring nowadays? Is it staying strong and spreading? V.B. (talk) 17:23, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update? 
Talk:John Sabini

message: Article seems copy pastied. Also he was involved in a driving accident in which he was drunk. He hit some one with his car while he was intoxicated and when asked to take a breathalizer test he said something to the extent that hes above the law. Punishment was a 300$ ticket.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.254.22 (talk) 00:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Several issues 

message: The first 11 paragraphs of the article are entirely unsourced. SunCrow (talk) 02:34, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs more sources
Talk:John Sharpe (publisher)

message: I could only find another link to add, bringing the total to 2. So this article is still an orphan. More original content may be needed to de-orphan it. twilsonb (talk) 11:13, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still an Orphan 

message: An RfC: Which descriptor, if any, can be added in front of Southern Poverty Law Center when referenced in other articles? has been posted at the Southern Poverty Law Center talk page. Your participation is welcomed. – MrX 16:52, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC 
Talk:John Sheahan

message: On all the early Dubliners records, his name was spelled 'Sheehan'.  If anyone knows what the story is here, a line of explanation in the article would be useful. Paul Magnussen (talk) 20:10, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of name 

message: Given that he was born in 1939, I highly doubt that he's been active since 1940 as it says in the box on the right.
Does anyone know the correct year? 2003:7A:4F65:AF00:7450:A234:E792:54E5 (talk) 00:23, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Active since 1940?
Talk:John Skoyles (poet)

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates and tables for short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 01:29, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography
Talk:John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim

message: His viscountcy is titled: Viscount Slim, of Yarralumla in the Capital Territory of Australia and of Bishopston in the City and County of Bristol.  I wonder if that alone makes him an Australian peer.  He certainly has no other Australian connections, that I can see.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 12:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed him from :Category:Australian peers as his Australianness is not established.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 00:02, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume by 'Australian peer' in that question means an Australian who is a peer. There has been no such honour as 'an Australian peerage', Australia has never created peerages - the peerage he inherited from his father is a peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.Cloptonson (talk) 14:52, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Australian peers - category

message: I am not sure about Lord Ravensdale having "succeeded" 2nd Viscount Slim in the House of Lords. Presumably this means Ravensdale was elected to fill the voting position in the Lords made vacant when Slim died. But isn't succession usually defined as who inherits the title, in this case viscount? Could someone expert in these matters please clarify?
Marchino61 (talk) 06:00, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: In the infobox it is usually stated, who succeeded the holder of an office. For example, Boris Johnson would be listed as successor to Theresa May in the office of PM. Thus the choice of words here does not signify inheritance, but merely, that another person subsequently occupied the office or position in question.UKcrow93 (talk) 09:50, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  House of Lords succession 

message: The coat of arms shown is that of the first viscount. As the second viscount was never a Knight of the Garter, his arms would not be encircled by the Garter. Perhaps someone with a little bit of skill in these matters could create a version of the coat of arms without the Garter, to display in this article?--UKcrow93 (talk) 09:53, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank You, @MostEpic  UKcrow93 (talk) 11:44, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coat of arms
Talk:John G. Stackhouse Jr.

message: Hi all. I'm gently questioning the relevance of stating he's married to a former student. She explains how that is true, yet not as sordid as the statement and context might imply. Perhaps rephrase as "In 2022, Stackhouse remarried. They met through one of his classes and had collaborated to improve his website." If that's too convoluted and detailed, perhaps just: "Stackhouse entered a second marriage in 2022." Robincantin (talk) 22:14, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That link is a broken link and there is no other valid source that gives details about his divorce or remarriage. Naomi2015 (talk) 19:04, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia:Verifiability establishes when self-published sources may be used in an article. It seems appropriate in this case, especially since the statement is worded neutrally (I think).
Robincantin (talk) 16:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

text: The previous writing is not worded neutrally. It says Stackhouse divorced his Sleeth, we do not know what happened in his first marriage or divorce, this wording however suggests otherwise. The citation that is still live points to his public statement about his lawsuit against Crandall, and says nothing about dates, his marriages or his divorce so they do not support the claim either. Naomi2015 (talk) 19:17, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Relevance of wife being former student of Stackhouse
Talk:John Stride

message: According to Stuart Baird on the DVD commentary of The Omen and Martin Shaw during an interview on The One Show , both have said that John Stride has died but I can’t find any John Strides with a DOB of 11/07/1936 on Find My Past/Ancestry nor Scotland’s People, unless he died abroad. 192.com has him on the 2002 Electoral Register but there’s no trace of him after that. Stride’s second wife, actress April Wilding died in August 2003, so I don’t know if he passed on before or afterwards. Research continues.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.155.148.16 (talk) 18:04, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Died?
Talk:John Suthers

message: Thank you for urging the U S Supreme Court to uphold California Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act!!!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1:A300:470:10BE:4730:79BD:186 (talk) 00:20, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Same sex Marriage 
Talk:John Swannell (photographer)

message: If wives and children are worth noting, and a present wife and all children are named, why is a first wife nameless? Often she is the more significant on the way up... 
Is this Wikipedia style or just chance? Can we have a name for the first wife? 
131.111.184.102 (talk) 15:22, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can find one, in a reliable source, why not add it. What was it? Martinevans123 (talk) 16:24, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wives
Talk:Kaabu

message: The fact that many in the African diaspora in the Americas originated in what is today Guinea-Bissau might be mentioned.  Badagnani 05:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Slave trade
Talk:John T. Downey

message: I've got a ref that calls the mission "Third Force", but that page does not link here.
Is there sufficient support to create yet another Third Force page or is this ref in error?
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/06/16/cia-revisits-failed-china-spy-mission/
Hcobb (talk) 22:04, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This mission was part of a larger program called Third Force.  It definitely is worthy of its own page if the author would explore the topic beyond this one incident. There is a 2017 book on the program, The CIA and Third Force Movements in China during the Early Cold War by Roger B. Jeans.  Rublamb (talk) 00:54, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third Force 

message: The article fails to mention that New Britain, CT, Downey's adopted home town, named a street in his honor while he was in captivity. The street, 'John Downey Drive', was and remains a small business industrial park. His release and subsequent homecoming was a big deal in New Britain, and the street still bears his name. PeterInPA (talk) 01:12, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Britain Honors
Talk:Killiniq Island

message: Can someone who knows how to pronounce this island put an IPA in this article? Tavix (talk) 00:34, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be pronounced "kill-in-ick" but I don't know how to do the IPA thing. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:55, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation?
Talk:John Templeton Jr.

message: This piece states that Templeton is an evangelical Christian but does not cite a denomination, nor a footnote for the statement. His father, John Marks Templeton, was famously Presbyterian. Does anyone know Templeton Jr.'s denominational affiliation? MarmadukePercy (talk) 03:56, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evangelical Christian 
Talk:John Threat

message: Clearly this was written by the subject himself.  There are no references to almost anything, and it's self-aggrandizing to the extreme.209.188.55.41 (talk) 17:27, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Self-Promotion

message: This page was self-edited by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Netw1z">user netw1z</a>, aka John Lee aka Corrupt. Family Guy Guy (talk) 14:17, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John White (actor)

message: Looks like Johnny White has been known to edit Wikipedia. :)71.137.235.108 10:41, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Wilkinson (entrepreneur)

message: I removed the below as David Burrows is not famous and it is unsourced. It was reverted
 However, when asked in 2008 to name Salford's greatest servant, he answered, without hesitation, 'David 'Budgie' Burrows is the  standard by which all Salford lovers must measure themselves. His tireless support and generous philanthropy have endeared him to  the entire Salford family. I am proud to call him a friend.'  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.206.196.225 (talk) 10:28, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: removed probable vandalism
Talk:John Will (fighter)

message: I have trained under him and know a lot of this to be true but from a wikipedia POV, there isn't a single source. Boils (talk) 17:56, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Jura range

message: I don't see the rationale for speedy delete. Perhaps there is some Wikipedia guideline I am not aware of, but the way Redirects are treated, the "No incoming links" explanation does not make sense because 1. It is the custom of most wiki editors to remove links to redirects and instead point the article to the destination link 2. redirects also work as typing aids when searching for items.  That is, a user looking for the Jura range, will type such a thing in the search box and be directed to the correct item: the Jura mountains.  Again, I see no reason for the speedy delete, and remember wikipedia is not paper. --Stux 05:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I see your point, and agree. However, I changed the redirect to link to "Jura Mountains", rather than "Jura mountains", to avoid the double redirect. — JeremyTalk 11:20, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:John Winston (actor)

message: I am pretty sure that John has died. 
Date of death Sept 19, 2019. Listed in our union's magazine; latest issue.
http://digital.copcomm.com/i/1195764-special-edition-2020/91
However, I cannot find any other corroborating info.
I worked with him in the 1990s. A lovely gent.
 Zotzberry (talk) 22:25, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Young (musician)

message: John Young (jazz pianist).In ictu oculi (talk) 10:20, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: John Young (American musician)
Talk:John Zaller

message: Professor Zaller's personality and appearance are uncannily Mr. Burns-like, the character from the Simpson's television show.
Hannahmontanahrox (talk) 17:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I just removed this bit
:Zaller is also well known, especially amongst the undergraduate community at UCLA, for the tangental wisdom he intersperses with lectures.  Known as "Zallerisms", these bits of philosophical enlightenment, derived from Zaller's own unique world view, include theoretical frameworks for addressing basic or menial scholarly tasks.  Zaller is known to challenge his students with complex questions that, despite their apparent incoherence, are in all actuality concise, formulaic, and manageable.  A man of profound humor, Zaller is often capable of prompting spontaneous bursts of laughter.  Perhaps this quality is derived from his dearest life goal of one day becoming a professional comedian. 
:He is also referred to affectionately as "JFK Zaller" by his undergraduate students.
This seems mostly affectionate but not very encyclopedic. Martijn Faassen (talk) 14:09, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  bit removed 
Talk:Johnnie Gray

message: Johnnie Gray does a lot for Green Bay, and is known to be a sweet heart.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.129.69.226 (talk) 20:32, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Johnny Hawksworth

message: There was info on this page about his family life - uncited info - that I've removed. It was extremely controversial, but I haveno idea how valid it is. Nach0king (talk) 17:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't find anything on the internet to verify this, do you know of any reliable sources where it has been mentioned? —Snigbrook 14:24, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Until it is announced by a third party, reliable source, Wikipedia's policies on the biographies of living people cover this article, and they require that all potentially controversial material (including a date of death) be verifiable. Cheers, CP 15:38, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Family
Talk:Johnny Kidd (wrestler)

message: Does anyone have a reference for it being the same Kidd in SMW?  I've heard that he said he never wrestled in the US.  --David Bixenspan 16:47, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 
Talk:Johnny Lodden

message: What does Johnny Lodden think?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.193.132 (talk) 00:40, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening comment 
Talk:Johnny Pate

message: The article seems to be a copy & paste job from the allmusic article. Will try to wikify it...--Technopat (talk) 23:01, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Great idea!  I added Red Saunders' name and a link, and mentioned the fact that Pate made recordings before his hit on Federal.-RLCampbell (talk) 23:09, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy & paste 

message: He also - and I think mainly - played upright bass. There are photos of him with that instrument and on Swinging Shephards Blues from the 1950s it is certainly one. Also on the CD "At the Blue Note".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:CD:772B:8BA5:A9B2:239E:57D2:A75E (talk) 17:12, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upright bass
Talk:Johnny Sellers

message: Sellers won the Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park in1972 aboard Typecast who was the only mare to beat the boys in this race. Tommy Doyle trained her for Westerly Stud farm. 208.69.184.29 (talk) 20:02, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sellers won the graded Sunset Handicap on Typecast 

message: I've seen it claimed (e.g. here) that Sellers was the tallest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. Was he? And if so, what was his height?
JezGrove (talk) 22:01, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height
Talk:Stress majorization

message: Stress majorization is a very old (1977) and widely used technique for metric multidimensional scaling with a number of other interesting applications.  It might take me a few days to put it all together though, please don't delete it!  It may be a little stub-like at the moment but I promise to keep expanding it as time permits.  Thanks Tgdwyer 07:37, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry I was a bit hasty on the speedy delete tag. Still, you need to make this a bit less technical so average readers (or below-average readers such as myself) might have a faint clue about this topic. A real-world example might be in order. I realize you'll never dumb it down to an eighth-grade level, and you wouldn't really want to. But still, just a little context for the rest of us would be a good idea. Realkyhick 05:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speedy deletion 

message: I can't make out what X' is referring to here.  X is a configuration matrix.  Is X' just the transpose of X? Cai (talk) 16:30, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  X' 

message: I expect the description is technically correct but it does read in a bit of an odd way:
"Stress majorization is an optimization strategy used in multidimensional scaling (MDS) where, for a set of n, m-dimensional data items, a configuration X of n points in r(<<m)-dimensional space is sought that minimises the so called stress function σ(X). "
This seems to be saying that "majorization" (which I suspect is not a real word) consists of "minimisation" which sounds very odd to me when I read it.  Is there a better way of wording this?90.205.123.105 (talk) 18:36, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Majorization or minimisation?

message: It states "i.e. for the Hessian matrix V the second term is equivalent to tr X'VX  "
What Hessian matrix V? Hessian of which function?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uriamor (talk • contribs) 19:39, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The SMACOF algorithm isn't clear
Talk:Jón Loftur Árnason

message: His name is actually Jón Loftur Árnason with the commas over o and A. Shouldn't the article be renamed to reflect that? --82.148.72.181 (talk) 15:28, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: The Article was saying that he seazed playing in 1995. True, he has been playing less...but he still plays..so I edited his profile accordingly Emma knows it well (talk) 08:29, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chess Activity
Talk:Jon Astley

message: Dear 24.121.157.197:  Describing Astley as a "butcherer" or "destroyer" of albums in the first sentence hardly makes for an NPOV article.  If you want to make your point, may I suggest describing his work as "controversial," and backing it up with a citation or two?  Simply stating your opinion is not in the Wikipedia spirit, as I understand it. Alexbook (talk) 16:39, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Butcherer of classic albums"
Talk:Jon Bauer

message: The article may be improved by following the WPBiogaphy 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 06:46, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:Michael joseph gross

message: This page was added to differentiate the writer Michael Joseph Gross from the writer Michael Gross (already listed on Wikipedia).
Both writers are accomplished journalists and book authors. I thought it important to add the second -- Michael Joseph Gross. The facts about his book, upcoming book and magazine/newspaper articles are quite easy to substantiate from the website -- www.michaeljosephgross.com.
This is my first wikipedia entry. If I should provide direct links to his articles, please let me know. Michael Joseph Gross is a very well-known entertainment, travel and religion writer while Michael Gross (the existing page) is a well-known fashion writer.
I am investigating the way to change a page title -- perhaps adding (writer) in the title would help?
If you look up Michael Gross (writer) -- you will see that I used that page as a guideline to create the Michael Joseph Gross page.
Let me know if I need to provide any further information.
Reading bella 06:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks so much for adding this article, Reading bella. It should be cleaned up now! I'll do some work on changing the title (though I think it might be okay as is), and adding more to the article in the near future. Rockstar915 06:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Jon Comer

message: The Berrics is a well established skateboard website owned by Steve Berra and Eric Koston. I noticed some WP:GF edits that were consistently removing Berrics as a source, but we have to understand that skateboard‑related news won't reach mainstream sources like NYT, CNN, etc unless the skater has a status of "popular celebrity" like Tony Hawk, Jason Lee, etc. Some other examples of well established skateboard‑industry sources are TWS, Thrasher, etc. It's good to have overseers to keep articles in-check, but skateboard‑related articles will most likely be edited by skateboarderers, so I kindly ask to take it easy on the revert button if you're not too familiar with skateboarding. Thanks Feelthhis (talk) 16:16, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skateboard sources 

message: In the past, there have been petitions and other public initiatives to rename the Garland, Texas skate park after Jon Comer, However, local news and social media have not widely covered the topic until recently, with the Dallas Morning News and other outlets reporting on Tony Hawk leading calls to rename the park. 47.184.163.71 (talk) 07:55, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  2023 Media Coverage in DFW
Talk:Jon Grayshon

message: Any relation to Jeff Grayshon?--Jeff79 (talk) 15:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jeff Grayshon 