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Talk:Mission of Gravity

message: The isfdb says the first book publication was 
:"(1958, Galaxy Publishing Corp., 33, $0.35, 191pp, pb) Cover: Wallace A. Wood"
but my 1978 paperback says "Copyright 1954 by Doubleday and Company". Is Galaxy an imprint of Doubleday? Did it sit on the shelf for four years? —wwoods 20:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've come to realize that the ISFDB biblios are woefully incomplete. They'll almost always do more to confuse you than anything else. -- Antepenultimate 02:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The 1954 edition is now listed. 129.42.208.186 (talk) 15:19, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And of course, like Wikipedia, the rule of "so fix it" applies. Anyone can submit a publication to the ISFDB for inclusion. 129.42.208.186 (talk) 20:06, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publication 

message: Clement has a particular style of characterization where his aliens are resourceful and plucky and likeable (Needle, MoG, Iceworld).  There is nothing saying that the emotions of aliens can not be recognizeable.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.12.16 (talk) 16:21, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  love the characterization 

message: I seem to recall reading some years ago - unfortunately I don't recall where - that "Mission of Gravity" was originally longer, and that editors had cut out various passages before its first publication, and that almost all published versions of the novel since then included only this cut text; then, relatively recently and for the first time, the complete, uncut text had been published.  I have never seen this edition, so can't verify it.
Does anyone know if this is true?  If so, and they can give definite information about editions, years, and so on, it might be worth mentioning in this article.  (And I would be interested to find out too, and to buy the complete edition.) M.J.E. (talk) 16:04, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That does not appear to be true of the 2000 NESFA press edition (and they make a point of "original versions"), the 2003 Orb edition, or the 205 Gollancz / Orion "SF Masterworks" edition, nor any edition listed at the ISFDB, nor in the Locus index. I would expect such an edition to advertise the restored text loudly, but none seems to do so. 129.42.208.186 (talk) 20:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a longer version?
Talk:David Harbater

message: I created the original version of this article and had been monitoring it for bad edits, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.
Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive.  I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions, although I hope for the best.
Good luck in your search for information, regardless!---CH 23:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Students beware

message: What is said about Math 55 is somewhat unclear, and anyway belongs in the article about the course, not here. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:47, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Math 55
Talk:Demetrios Christodoulou

message: I created the original version of this article and had been monitoring it, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.
Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive.  I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions, although I hope for the best.
Good luck in your search for information, regardless!---CH 23:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Students beware
Talk:Electrogravitic tensor

message: I created the original version of this article and had been monitoring it, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.
Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive.
I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions, although I hope for the best.
Good luck in your search for information, regardless!---CH 23:21, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Students beware
Talk:Electrovacuum solution

message: I created the original version of this article and had been monitoring it for bad edits, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.
Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive. I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions, although I hope for the best.
Good luck in your search for information, regardless!---CH 23:22, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Students beware
Talk:Ezra T. Newman

message: I created the original version of this article and had been monitoring it, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.
Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive.  I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions, although I hope for the best.
Good luck in your search for information, regardless!---CH 23:28, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Students beware

message: Prof. Newman died on 24 March 2021, according to an internal e-mail.  Keep watching the Department of Physics & Astronomy site for a public announcement within the next couple days. 73.117.48.151 (talk) 17:20, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Death
Talk:Fermi–Walker differentiation

message: I created the original version of this article and had been monitoring it, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.
Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive.  I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions, although I hope for the best.
Good luck in your search for information, regardless!---CH 23:29, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Students beware
Talk:The Master of Go

message: The Japanese word used to describe the book is shōsetsu, which may be translated as "chronicle-novel", but it is mostly true to life.
I think that means short story. 203.218.87.69 07:13, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I agree with the previous comment, AFAIK, shousetsu simply means "novel".
Comeauch (talk) 18:26, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shousetsu 小説
Talk:Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy

message: While I'm horrible at doing tables correctly, I am decent at looking up information. So, here's some specs:
Designator: 377-PG
Engines: 4x Pratt & Whitney R-4360-59B 28-cyclinder radial engines, rated at 3,500 hp (2,610 kW)
Weight: 91,000 lbs (Plain 377: 88,000 lbs)
Sorry, can't find many more specs. :\ Thadius856 17:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specs 

message: *This one. KimiNewt (talk) 21:28, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image likely of use 
Portal talk:Current events/China

message: WTF is this BS? is this the type of reliable news source Wikipedia should be sourcing to?129.97.219.94 20:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird Asia News? 

message: Should this also cover Taiwan? 70.55.203.112 (talk) 04:45, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Taiwan?
Talk:Kokoro (Dead or Alive)

message: is kokoro eurasian? I always assumed fame douglas was french, so is she half japanese, half french? --Philo 19:35, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnicity 

message: Kokoro's name seems to always be written in hiragana when it's not romanized.  I have never seen it written using the kanji for "heart."  The source for this is Tecmo's official web pages and various Japanese magazine articles.Chikalin 06:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name in Japanese form 

message: I'm having a little trouble finding the right name for her Chinese-esque outfit. It looks pretty on her, don't get me wrong. I'm just having trouble finding the right name. Angie Y. (talk) 19:55, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Kokoro's Chinese-style outfit
Talk:The Faraway Tree

message: "The stories are inventive and fantastic and have continued to delight children. Like many of Blyton's books, they also provide an insight into a particular vision of mid-twentieth-century domestic life, which some modern readers find charming and others somewhat offensive as they choose to view it through a modern prism." - There is debate over Enid Blyton and whether she's racist/sexist/classist, this paragraph seems to have been written by a fan justifying her against these claims and is not particularly neutral. NeonDaylight 23:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I am looking for the older version of this book and The wishing chair series, I bought them for my daughter in the 70s, the were love and cherished, i now have a grandaughter who loves the stories, but there is not enough pictures in to days poor paper backs. Our books were large hard backs, beautifully ilustated.( I am sure we have them in the loft)I would like to purchased her own set.(-)-  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.211.188 (talk) 15:50, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  the faraway tree 

message: I see the message when trying to edit the article about the names. I agree that either set of names is acceptable, but presumably they should be consistent throughout the article. Is there a decision I've been missing as to which to go for? —Celestianpower háblame 14:12, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names 

message: "In modern reprints, the names of some of the characters have been changed. ..."
"Entire passages of the original have been rewritten to remove references to fighting. ..."
Did Blyton prepare any revised editions? When were the revised editions first published? If not Blyton, what is known about who worked on them? --P64 (talk) 03:01, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates, or revised editions 

message: I created a page for Up The Faraway Tree, the fourth book in the series. Although very rare so little is out there, I did add a link to the Enid Blyton society. This was reverted to a redirect. (Currently, clicking on the fourth book in the series goes back to the main Magic Tree page.)
My motivation for creating this page is that, as a USER, I'd rather have some - ANY - information about this little-known fourth book than a redirect. (In which case, IMO, the link should be removed - why link to a page that just redirects instead of displaying what it purports to?)
To complicate things further, there's a FIFTH book that I only found out about today, released May 2022: "The Magic Faraway Tree: A New Adventure by Jacqueline Wilson (2022)"
(This site also purports two more, I haven't had time to investigate the legitimacy of them yet: 
https://toppsta.com/books/series/6853/the-magic-faraway-tree
Silky's Story by Jeanne Willis (2020)
Moonface's Story by Jeanne Willis (2021))
I don't really want to go to the trouble of creating a new page (or three new pages??) only for them to be removed. TheFatJamoc (talk) 19:29, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fourth and fifth books
Category talk:Wikipedian Satmarers

message: Please join Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism, one of the largest forums for discussions between editors of Jewish articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism#Directory of participants and join or commence discussions at the talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism. Thanks for considering this. IZAK 07:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Please join Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism

message: I think that the name of this category should be changed to Wikipedian Hassidim to include followers of all sects of Hasidic Judaism.--רח"ק | Talk 23:45, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Categories for all Hasidim
Talk:Gerard Jones

message: I'm assembling resources to help source books on comics, this includes Men of Tomorrow, which is used as a source itself on quite a few articles here. (Emperor (talk) 15:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Men of Tomorrow 

message: This individual appears to have been charged with crimes c.f. http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Comic-book-author-suspected-of-putting-child-porn-10841108.php
I'm not adding it to the article, but I did add the current template to it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.20.26.8 (talk) 03:50, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current event
Talk:Geometric albedo

message: I have removed the following text from the article. It seems that it is not strictly true:
:This concept arises because the reflectivity of all surfaces, natural or man-made, depends on the angle of incidence as well as the azimuth of the incoming light beam (more generally electromagnetic radiation).
:Note that, strictly speaking, the geometric albedo is only defined
:* for objects that are flat, at least on the spatial scale at which measurements are acquired (the angle of incidence is undefined or quite variable for non-flat objects), and
:* for direct beam illumination (by definition diffuse illumination impinges on a surface from a variety of incidence angles).
A) The concept arises primarily because it is useful, I would say. 
B) It's clearly defined quite well for non-flat objects since thet's where it's actually used 
Deuar 23:47, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In principle the problem for a non-flat object is that you don't know where exactly (at which distance from the light source) to place the flat disk; and strictly speaking maybe it shouldn't be flat, but cut out of a sphere centered at the light source. The article now states that the disk should have the "same cross-section"; if you mean - in the case of a perfect ball or sphere - a disk with the same diameter, then the disk will look smaller if it is placed at a distance so that the centers of the ball and the disk coincide. However, the differences in the albedo caused by this would be negligible for most astronomical purposes. Icek (talk) 21:41, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Umm al-Banin

message: I tried my best to explain our friend Grenavitar that binte is the right way of saying daughter of in Arabic but he keeps on insisting that it should be bint. Bint has a spelling mistake since it leaves out the -e- from binte. Whoever started writing Islamic article in on wikipedia wrote the article with acb bint acb and acb bin acb. Which are wrong because in Arabic the right way of saying daughter of is Binte and the correct way of saying son of is Ibn. Salman
:I agree... --Striver 03:44, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Binte VS Bint

message: Perhaps I am asking too much here, but I would like to see the dates of the lady's birth and death.  Since we have a photograph of her grave, could we at least know where she was buried?  Zaynab bint Ali, of course, died in three cities, and is buried in four places. J S Ayer (talk) 01:54, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Found some information. Two dates and only one place so far. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 14:18, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  biodata
Talk:Major League Baseball 2K6

message: can anyone change the articles features, its ripped straight off the box. Copyright violation?Julz 23:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: copyvio?

message: this section is nothing more than an opinion.  it needs a cite or should be removed.  --Tschroeder 23:50, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  criticism 

message: I would add the game's soundtrack to the page myself but I'm not a whiz when it comes to editing. Anybody who wants to incorporate it into the article can find the game's soundtrack here.
http://2ksports.com/whats_hot/mlb2k6/186
Kiefja (talk) 19:37, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Soundtrack
Talk:George Yuri Rainich

message: I created the original version of this article and had been monitoring it for bad edits, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.
Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive.  I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions, although I hope for the best.
Good luck in your search for information, regardless!---CH 00:02, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Students beware
Talk:The Man Who Japed

message: Where's the plot?  There's a plot introduction but no plot description. I read this book many years ago so I only remember vaguely what it's about. Sluggoster (talk) 20:30, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: From sketchy memory, the following spoiler: Allen Purcell is a successful, ostensibly regime-compliant advertising executive. At first, amnesia keeps him from realizing that he was the one who decapitated the statue of Major Streiter, placed the head in the Major's heroically outstretched hand, and bent a leg of the plastic statue to appear as if the Major was about to drop-kick his own head. Eventually the ruling regime starts closing in on him. He uses his advertising connections to launch a publicity campaign calling for a return to one of the Major's early policies, "active assimilation." Only after public opinion overwhelmingly favors active assimilation does he reveal recipes showing that it was a method of relieving a post-war protein shortage by eating the enemy. __ Just plain Bill (talk) 15:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing Plot
Talk:Gravitational plane wave

message: I extensively edited the May 2005 version of this article (in fact, these were my first edits of my year as a Wikipedian, and I had been monitoring it for bad edits, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.
Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive.  I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions, although I hope for the best.
Good luck in your search for information, regardless!---CH 00:06, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Students beware
Talk:Roadkill (wrestler)

message: Just a heads up, per administrator Durova, the "Compiled by Jonathan Barber" information is to be reverted on sight (as a violation of WP:VAIN and WP:OWN) SirFozzie 17:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: the Jonathan Barber namecheck will not be allowed into the article

message: one from his best known era as roadkill, not whatever that wwe pic is from76.226.136.146 (talk) 03:17, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: needs a better image
Talk:Cosmic Coaster (Worlds of Fun)

message: Would it be appropriate to include information about an accident involving a Wacky Worm where someone lost their leg?
Ref: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100624/articles/100629718&tc=yahoo
Kevink707 (talk) 21:44, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accident 
Talk:Peyton Place (novel)

message: Despite the critical hostility to Metalious' prose, there are glimpses of a deeper talent, as reflected in the book's third paragraph: "The sky was low, of a solidly unbroken blue. The maples and oaks and ashes, all dark red and brown and yellow, preened themselves in the unseasonably hot light, under the Indian summer sun. The conifers stood like disapproving old men on the hills around Peyton Place and gave off a greenish yellow light. On the roads and sidewalks of the town were fallen leaves which made such a gay crackling when stepped upon and sent up such a sweet scent when crushed that it was only the very old who walked over them and thought of death and decay."
Don't think so. 71.59.91.78 02:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Appropriate to have in an encyclopedia?

message: The article has Allison Mackenzie running away to New York and being impregnated by a man named Allison Mackenzie. I know that Americans have funny names sometimes, but this seems unlikely. I read the book in about 1960, so I cannot correct the mistake, but perhaps someone can.
Richard Brock  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.27.235.32 (talk) 18:58, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistake in the article? 

message: I remember Michael's name in the first novel being Kyros, changing to Rossi in the sequel with no explanation (to bring it in line with the TV series?).
So: Did later editions of Peyton Place get retconned?
Paul Magnussen (talk) 03:29, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael what? 

message: Shouldn't we include a section of references to this novel?
For instance, in Jeannie C. Riley's song, "Harper Valley P.T.A.," after Mrs. Johnson exposes the various scandalous behaviors of the members of the P.T.A. who suggested her own behavior was inappropriate to be raising her Junior High School daughter, she remarks, "Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites."
And this can't be the only reference to Peyton Place. SanctimoniousPharisee (talk) 21:09, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural References?
Talk:ATB Financial

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was move Ardenn 19:39, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~''
*Support per nom. --Ardenn 00:17, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Regarding the text:
:ATB is not a chartered bank, and unlike other banks operating in Canada, ATB is regulated entirely by the Government of Alberta, under the authority of the Alberta Treasury Branches Act, Chapter A-37.9, 1997, and Treasury Branches Regulation 187/97.
The text "other banks", impies the ATB is a bank, but is uniquely exempt from federal jurisdiction.  But all banks are under federal jursidiction.  The ATB avoids federal jurisdiction only by not being a bank.  This is similiar to other financial institutions (Credit Unions), which fall under provincial jurisdiction for the same reason.   --Rob (talk) 02:42, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a bank 

message: I restored the section:
"subject of scandal in the late 1980s after clients such as Peter Pocklington's Gainers Foods defaulted on loans that were often granted for political reasons."
and I added West Edmonton Mall.
I found it in the edit history but I could not see any reasons why it was removed.
I added some citations but I am still learning the format, not sure how to deep link into the hansard PDF.
75.159.186.37 (talk) 09:20, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Scandal

message: Some of this article seems to be copypasta from ATB's website.
75.159.186.37 (talk) 09:20, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reads like an advertisement
Talk:Firefly (soundtrack)

message: Does anyone know if the music at the beginning of the episode "Heart of Gold" is on this soundtrack? The female voice from that piece was sampled on the 2004 Sonia Dada album Test Pattern. Chubbles 00:31, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: The result of the AfD for this article was a difficult debate to synthesise - but in the end I concluded that a Merge to Firefly_%28TV_series%29#Music was appropriate. I note the helpful suggestion by PC78 that a  can be used to avoid clutter in the main article. It is not my intention to complete the merge but if PC78 or another editor could do so without cluttering the main Featured Article that would be much appreciated.--VS talk 04:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging after AfD 
Talk:People meter

message: I removed a large amount of information from this page because it was directly copied from http://www.nielsenmedia.com/about_us.html.  This violates Wikipedia:Copyrights and if it's going to be put in you either are going to need permission from nielsonmedia or rewrite it but you can't copy and paste it like that SirGrant 00:35, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

message: which families and/or people are chosen and how? why?
it would be nice to know more about the process of how this comes about. 24.60.66.216 06:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: but who has these 'people meters'?