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Talk:Senior colonel

message: As described, this rank sounds functionally equivalent to Brigadier, in the UK (etc) sense.  Would that be about right?  Alai 17:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It probably would be a good equivalent, just as long as its made clear that this rank is not the same thing as a Brigadier General. -Husnock 20:51, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume they are broadly equivalent as far as inter-operable pecking order purposes are concerned, since that seems to how Brigadiers are treated.  But the key difference being, Brigadier + Senior Colonel = senior field officer, whereas BG = junior general officer.  Alai 00:27, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Currently in PLA of China, the Senior Colonel is assigned to 1. the grade of division officers such as division commander and the division commissar; 2. the grade of vice-corp officers with the posts less than two years; 3, the grade of vice-division officers with the posts more than two years. Most technical officers (pilots, military medicals, military engineers etc.) can reach such rank before retire.  Ligand 05:00, 8 Feb 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brigadier? 

message: The reference here to Colonel Generals seems at variance with the information in that article (or at least to be confusing in that regard).  Does China, for example, actually have them?  In no case do they seem to be an equivalent rank to BG, so it seems problematic to say they "make up for" such a lack.  Alai 05:11, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colonel General comparison 
Talk:Cosmic Encounter

message: It was unnecessary, and inaccurate information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.235.194.225 (talk • contribs) 
:Under what criteria was it "unnecessary", and in whay ways was it inaccurate? Percy Snoodle 17:51, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "this shows a very shallow understanding", "perpetrated by some people with a need to play God" - please don't make personal attacks.  Percy Snoodle 09:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

text: There is a difference between criticising the article and criticising the editor.  If you geniunely think that Wikipedia is nothing more than a breeding ground for hypocrisy, I invite you to leave. Percy Snoodle 08:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed "Spin-Offs" Section 
Talk:Wonder Lake (CDP), Illinois

message: There are a lot of claims made in this article that make one side of the lake seem much worse than the other, most of which are unsubstantiated.  Number of welfare recipients, for example, has no citation.  I removed one NPOV statement and put in verification for another, but most of the rest of these (stemming from this edit) need to be either verified or pulled entirely. Sachmet 18:02, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV dispute
Talk:Myer Prinstein

message: Can anybody definitively say how he spelt his first name?  This article is headed "Meyer Prinstein" but begins "Myer Prinstein".  In Google, 'Meyer' gets more hits but the ones for 'Myer' seem to be of better quality.
(Retrospectively signed by Scolaire 17:58, 1 May 2006)
: The USATF (), EB (), and the IOC ( - search for "Prinstein") all give it as "Meyer".  Sorry I didn't catch this earlier, not sure how this article isn't on my watchlist. "Myer" definitely appears enough that there needs to be a redirect, though. -- Jonel | Speak 19:55, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The move is unfortunate, as the name is Meyer.  The rest of the editing looks great. -- Jonel | Speak 02:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Huh.  Considering the strong sources using both spellings, I'm going to blame Webster and Johnson (though I doubt they had anything to do with this specific spelling difference).  As long as WP is consistent and there's a redirect (and you appear to have done the footwork for that), either spelling is fine. Good work! -- Jonel | Speak 19:06, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks for that, Donna. I hope you approve of the article.  Scolaire 21:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meyer or Myer?
Talk:Azuma's inequality

message: Hi, Steve notes that the 1963 JASA paper of Hoeffding is for independent random variables. This is just part of the story. The theorem in the paper is stated for independent random variables, but Hoeffding later comments in the text of the paper that the same argument applies to martingales --- and this is absolutely true. I have quoted "Azuma's inequality" in many papers, but I would not do so now. For years now, I have simply said "Hoeffding's inequality" and I would encourage others to do the same. Azuma's discovery was surely independent, but it was redundant at the time of publication. This happens all the time --- but not so often to stuff that is so important. 
It's actually not easy to find Azuma's paper (Princeton has it), but you can snap Hoeffding off of JSTOR any day of the week --- and it is a gem.
Mike Steele (I have forgotten how to sign my post --- but this is me!)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.105.108.90 (talk) 21:24, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

message: I feel these articles shouldn't be merged: Hoeffding's inequality is tighter than the Azuma-Hoeffding inequality, at the price of a stronger assumption (independence).  I think the two articles should reference each other, and leave it at that. --Steve Kroon 05:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Hoeffding's inequality 

message: The current version Azuma's inequality does not generalize Hoeffding's inequality for sum of zero-mean independent variables.
The problem is the assumption that k-th increment lies in interval [-c_k, c_k]. There is no reason for the interval to be symmetric.
(In Hoeffding's inequality, the interval is allowed to be asymmetric and only its length matters.) A more general version of Azuma is that k-th increment lies in interval
[A_k, A_k + c_k] where A_k depends on X_1, X_2, \ldots, X_{k-1}. This leads to a factor of 4 difference in the exponent, as compared to Hoeffding. 
I understand that this is more complicated and less understandable, though... --David Pal (talk) 03:19, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A slightly better version? 

message: The example on azuma's inequality with coin tosses is incorrect. Check it for t=N/2. I think the problem is that the differences isn't a martingale. The differences are iid with expected value 1/2. And the previous difference could be 0 or 1.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.66.165.86 (talk) 20:02, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect example 

message: The introduction of the article states that the theorem requires |X_k-X_{k+1}|<c_k. In the version that I am familiar with [Alon, N.; Spencer, J., (2000, 2nd Ed), The Probabilistic Method, New York: Wiley], the condition is stated as |X_k-X_{k+1}|\le c_k, which weaker. So this seems to me like a typo or at least not the best possible.--Seabonn (talk) 19:24, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Condition may be stronger than necessary
Talk:Illinois Route 267

message: I'm getting two different answers as to where this highway ends.
# Rich's page says it ends at Illinois Route 111 in Woodson, Illinois
# Most online maps show Illinois 267 ending at U.S. 67 in Godfrey, Illinois
# Charles' Page shows BGSs for Illinois 267 at U.S. 67 in Godfrey as of April 14, 2006.
I don't know when Illinois 267 was extended south, but I can see it being done to make more sense. Anyone else got more info? —Rob (talk) 19:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The GIS data doesn't show the concurrency. But, given the signage, it's pretty clear that it ends at US 67. --SPUI (T - C) 22:26, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Routing conflicts 

message: Just curious, because I was on US 67 in Jacksonville last summer and don't recall Murrayville or IL 267, since they got the new section of US 67 going south from I-72.  The one website doesn't appear up to date on it.  DandyDan2007 11:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The ends page looks updated, so yeah, the article is definitely out of date. When did U.S. 67 south of I-72 open? It wasn't there the last time I checked. —Rob (talk) 20:41, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry I didn't get back any sooner, but I was there in early August, so it would have had to have opened by early August. DandyDan2007 10:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is the north end?
Talk:Soviet frigate Storozhevoy

message: The name Strozhevoi in this contaxt means vigilant the Soviets named almost all of their destroyers and Frigates after adjectives (see rest of Krivak class article for other examples) - the noun strozhevoi does mean Guardian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.24.4 (talk • contribs) 18:06, May 1, 2006
Bombed by Yak-28, not Su-24. See Su-24 discussions page.
Thebiggestmac (talk) 23:00, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vigilant

message: I suggest to move this article to Storozhevoy mutiny because that is actually the subject; and the ship is only notable because of this event.Biophys (talk) 04:39, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed move

message: "the lofty ideals of communism had been discarded, and there was a pressing need to revive the Leninist principles of justice.[c"
as always some communism lover tries to hide the fact that lenin was already murdering thousands of people for his politics. to call those "lofty ideals" is insensitive to the many people who died during that era, humiliated, tortured and then inhumanely murdered publicly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror#Repressions  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.47.147.182 (talk) 14:24, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You could do with rereading it. It is what Sablin was allegedly going to announce, it is not wikipedia's, or anyone else's for that matter, judgement on communism, Leninism or whatever. Whether Sablin was misguided, naive or a 'communism lover' for holding those ideals is not for us to judge. Benea (talk) 14:54, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  this sentence does certainly not belong on wikipedia 

message: I've just found on the Internet Archive a copy of author John Wingate's 1978 novel "Red Mutiny: A Diary" published by St Martins in 1978. The blurb makes it quite clear that it's inspired by the 1975 mutiny, but that at the time the story was written the actual cause was unknown in the West, as the blurb claims the seamen mutinied due to being denied leave. Is it worth mentioning on the Wiki? And should the article be expanded to include details on just what the West knew in the 1970s shortly after the events occurred. Graham1973 (talk) 01:06, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  An earlier fictional account, John Wingate's Red Mutiny: A Diary (1978)
Template talk:User Pennsylvania

message: In January, User:Fang Aili removed the seal based on it being used under fair use here at Wikipedia. I've just removed it again. I've had discussions about this with members of ArbCom, and the position is that the  tag is insufficient as it does not state anything of substance about the licensing under which the image is used. It might be fair use, it might be public domain. Fact is, we don't know. We err on the side of caution here, and presume it is fair use. Any image tagged with only  should be re-tagged. Until such time as it is re-tagged with a licensing tag that permits use under situations other than fair use, we must presume fair use. --Durin 18:06, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use image use

message: I have reverted the so-called "cleanup" that changed the meaning of this userbox, since it relates solely to Wikipedians currently residing in Pennsylvania. For Wikipedians who hail from PA, there are other options available. -- Scjessey (talk) 21:48, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation for reversion
Talk:Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina

message: Eastern Bosnia is heavily forested along the river Drina, and overall close to 50% of Bosnia and Herzegovina is forested. Most forest areas are in Central, Eastern and Western parts of Bosnia. Northern Bosnia contains very fertile agricultural land along the river Sava and the corresponding area is heavily farmed. This farmland is a part of the Parapannonian Plain stretching into neighboring Croatia and Serbia. The river Sava and corresponding Posavina river basin hold the cities of Brčko, Bosanski Šamac, Bosanski Brod and Bosanska Gradiška. See[], and see here [], and here []--93.196.85.100 (talk) 22:32, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Law and the decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina City called Gradiska. .Radio Free E. --Zlatno krilo (talk) 00:53, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Official name of the town
Talk:CCM

message: * CCM (disambiguation) → CCM … Rationale: the latter was changed to a redirect to Contemporary Christian music in January, but there are many things called CCM, Christian music doesn't seem to be overwhelmingly more popular than the rest, and the current setup is suboptimal.  There's no discussion about this anywhere, but it doesn't seem particularly controversial.  --jacobolus (t) 13:51, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Don't know what you mean, Matt, but when I google for CCM, I get Christian music as one of ten hits, with the other ten hits for completely unrelated topics. For me, it's clear that this means no primary topic exists, and the dab should be here. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 10:12, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Move [[CCM (disambiguation)]] here

message: And what about software Configuration and Change Management?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.165.110.102 (talk) 10:37, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Config & Chg Mgmt) 

message: Core-Coupled Memory (CCM), eg. https://www.st.com/resource/en/application_note/dm00083249-use-stm32f3stm32g4-ccm-sram-with-iar-ewarm-keil-mdkarm-and-gnubased-toolchains-stmicroelectronics.pdf  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.20.151.11 (talk) 18:06, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memory
Talk:Silver Arrows

message: Hello, on :de:Diskussion:Silver Star (Achterbahn) the question was raised if "Silver Star" is a valid term for the old Silver Arrows.
It seems, that the Europa Park has founded it's name-choosing with this relationship. 
Has anyone ever heard, that a "Silver Arrow" was called "Silver Star", which is usally the name of the Mercedes-Sign. --Boris23 18:16, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I thoroughly agree with the post above. Neubauer's account of the 1933 Tripoli 'fixed' Grand prix is a notorious piece of fiction that has been many times repeated as the truth by people who should have known better! So why should we believe that blatantly apocryphal story about paint stripping, seeing as it is not mentioned by any contemporary source?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.54.66 (talk) 22:54, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alfred Neubauer is a proven liar! 

message: Mclaren Mercedes is a modern F1 team that uses Mercedes Benz engines. In no way is this a Mercedes team. It is a British racing team which in no way is related to the "Silver Arrows" Mercedes factory run cars. It does not belong on this page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Schumacherfan (talk • contribs) 18:43, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually Daimler AG hold a major stake in McLaren Group that translates into at least a 40% share of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula One team.  If I recall correctly West's colors are red and white, as seen in the Zakspeed of 1985-1989 and this picture, so it would seem reasonable to assume it was  influenced by Mercedes. Hippo (talk) 17:37, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  With McLaren-Mercedes since 1997, West had promoted their "West light" cigarette, nowadays named "West silver" after the colour of the pack.-- Matthead  Discuß   22:37, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Mclaren Mercedes image
Talk:Pfu DNA polymerase

message: Isn't Stratagene located in La Jolla, CA and not Jolly Rancher, the brand of candy?
Pfu DNA polymerase is hence superior for techniques that require high-fidelity DNA synthesis, but can also be used in conjunction with Taq polymerase to obtain the fidelity of Pfu with the speed of Taq polymerase activity.
This doesn't make sense. Are the two enzymes used in conjunction? That would simply result in a large amount of Taq-quality cDNA with a bit of high-fidelity cDNA from Pfu. Clarification please :)
Actually no. DNA synthesized by Taq poly is subsequently corrected by Pfu poly
--203.173.156.91 08:31, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This page sounds like it was written by stratagene's marketing department.146.139.132.18 21:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can provide a reference for that it can be inserted into the article? AIRcorn (talk) 21:58, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality

message: Can someone add when the patents would no longer be in place? I am not sure if it is 20/25 years or some other value. 2A02:8388:1642:D300:3AD5:47FF:FE18:CC7F (talk) 20:17, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patents
Talk:Illinois Route 111

message: There's conflicting data here...
* The Illinois ends picture shows a definite end, but it isn't anywhere near an identifiable marker.
* Rich's page says it's near old East St. Louis, near present-day Centerville.
* The road atlas shows it could be Interstate 55. Or Interstate 64. Or an arbitrary point just west of Interstate 255.
Umm... does anyone in the St. Louis area know where this road ends? —Rob (talk) 18:30, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the southern terminus?
Talk:Nordic folklore

message: In Scandinavian folklore, the terms 'gjenganger' and 'skrømt' are often both used to name the gjenganger-phenomenon, while 'skrømt' is also used as a name for supernatural happenings in general. On this page 'skrømt' redirects to 'ghost', which I think is wrong as the ghost-article mostly refers to modern day perception of ghosts, which differs from the "scandinavian folklore perception" of them (see the gjenganger article). Should the 'gjenganger' and 'skrømt' articles be merged, or remain as they are? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kvitorm (talk • contribs) 18:26, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gjenganger / skrømt 

message: Why here again is mixing Nordic and Scandinavian especially in context of excluding or including present day Finland. Norse/Scandianavia historywriting has strong interlinks with movements that lead to/were part of german national socialist movement. And these ideological undercurrents of etnic supremacy are easily visible for keen eye in these discussions. If you don't want to be assosiated with such a garbage, please keep that in mind. To begin to understand the complexicity one should maybe start with the not-so-early 1800-ethnographic maps and observe, that much of the present day northern Sweden and Norway were in fact populated, not only by Sami but actual Finns. This has been in still is not in bublic avareness even though fact is easily verifiable for anyone with basic academic skilla. And on the other hand Scandinavia in it's orginal form reallly only and strictly only refers to present day Skåne (southern tip of present day Sweden). Thank you. 213.28.224.223 (talk) 09:54, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Mixing Nordic and Scandinavian

message: This article has multiple issues, and may need to be completely rewritten. First of all, the presentation of roots in Norse mythology is speculative at best. Furthermore, the list of beings seem rather arbitrary (and written from a popular cultural / non-native point of view?). I will start to rewrite parts, but will need help. Best, (Norwegian folklorist) Ida Tolgensbakk (talk) 13:04, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has been tagged as requiring a rewrite for over two years. Many articles in this area are not so great unfortunately. Hrodvarsson (talk) 02:41, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the article badly needs a rewrite. If you're interested in working in these corners, I also invite you to join WikiProject Folkore, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of folklore and folklore studies-related topics. :bloodofox: (talk) 21:09, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic article from a folkloristic point of view 

message: Hi, what about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr ? Fossegrimen, deildegasten ... and probably more. T 84.208.86.134 (talk) 08:13, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other candidates
Talk:Carl Hamilton novels

message: Is Carl Hamilton named after a journalist in a large swedish newspaper?
I haven't read this anywhere, but since one of Guillou's collegues has the same name it would be to strange if this wasn't so.
Jan Guillou and Carl Hamilton are both writing articles in the swedish newspaper "Aftonbladet".
Coq Rouge: 1) The massacre didnt take place in a embassy but a private house.
           2) He didnt prevent the massacre,he only saved a little girl
According to the "About section" in my pocketbooks, the character is loosely based on Guillou's friend, Mr.Oxenstierna, who was a Swedish noble in a leftist organization.
However, to hide that it was based on him, he needed to use another name, and was told that Hamilton was a very common name for the nobility. So therefore Hamilton was chosen. Note that he based the person on it, not the skillset or anything. ;)
The quote that sparked Guillous was when Oxenstierna was refered to as Comrade Oxenstierna which has a note of paradox in Swedish since Oxenstierna is a name among high nobility, see Axel Oxenstierna.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.227.146.137 (talk) 14:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Trident? Where does that come from? Is that the English translation's version? All I've read in German and heard from Swedish friends is that the original code name is and was "Coq Rouge", also it was not acquired during his training but a bit later at his first mission. In fact he was named after a brand of red wine according to: . Judging from Google, this name is already crawling the web. De728631 (talk) 00:47, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, an IP introduced this to the article saying that Coq Rouge was just a nickname. Still, it's confusing. I need to re-read the first chapters. De728631 (talk) 00:53, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, Hamilton is Coq Rouge, and dimwittedness has nothing to do with it as it's not a puzzle to be solved but stated throughout the first books. As I wrote earlier, Hamilton's code name for himself wasn't Coq Rouge, it was a code name used by other intelligence services (USSR IIRC) when his identity wasn't known to them, only his actions. Trident was his own code name, just as Orca was Ake Stalhandskes, for example. 80.217.8.62 (talk) 09:02, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Code name Trident

message: 'Hamilton displays very little personality throughout the books'
Isn't this a bit unfair? Yes he is described low-key, but under the controlled surface he is a complex personality. This is indicated more than described. In the early books 'The Old One' acts as his personal counsellor, being a trained psychologist. Hamilton's sleeping and impotence issues are the giveaway. The fact that his job gives him these kinds of problems shows him off as basically sane.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.240.70.102 (talk) 18:02, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Character of Carl Hamilton