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Talk:Pedestrian

message: i wonder if the sidewalk was normally for a pedestrian or was it a road or was it both.
what im trying to say is which was first known for a pedestrian to use.
:Roads existed first, originally as tracks. -- Derek Ross | Talk 07:00, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  sidewalks 

message: Mention what countries still require one to dangerously walk in the same direction as traffic, and why this is easy to get hit from the rear. Jidanni (talk) 18:11, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  walk with or against traffic 

message: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/walking/2012/04/walking_in_america_what_scientists_know_about_how_pedestrians_really_behave_.html is part of a series on how pedestrians behave that might be useful as a source for this article.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:38, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible source

message: '*facepalm* Does this really need to be stated? How else are humans suppose to move about? Roll around on the ground? It sounds like the sort of introduction that I would write, and I know very well that I am hopeless at writing introductions.202.73.1.98 (talk) 06:44, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walking has always been the primary means of human locomotion. 

message: I undid a previous edit that removed Jimmy Savile. While Jimmy Savile is not critical to the content of the article, I cannot recall any Wiki policy that states criminals should be purged from wiki articles. Feel free to enlighten me if I am wrong.202.73.1.98 (talk) 06:57, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jimmy Saville 

message: By my count, this section has at least 10 facts that are not cited. Also, it seems to actually be a history of pedestrianism (i.e. walking as a sport/event), which is not the subject of this article. The entire section should probably be removed. Sadievico (talk) 22:05, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be the lazy way of fixing it. An industrious Wikipedian might well consider researching some appropriate citations instead. An industrious Wikipedian might also discover that the original subject of the article (after the stupid argument about names for bits of roads was deleted) was the historical sport of Pedestrianism before the addition of the other material changed its focus. -- Derek Ross | Talk 02:42, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The article makes no mention of pedestrians who are wheelchair users or otherwise disabled. A person walking/rolling in a wheelchair is also a pedestrian. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 11:56, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wheelchair users
Talk:Gray goo

message: Fine if a game exists, but we don't need to know which platforms it's available for and the difference prices for each.  Blatant advert and undesirable.
Ganpati23 (talk) 16:57, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is there an advert for a computer game in this page? 

message: Which is it? Both spellings are used throughout the article, although the US "gray" is most prevalent. --Serpinium (talk) 20:01, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grey? Gray? 

message: Maybe the Borg nanoprobes (Star Trek) and the Terraformers/Xenon (X Series) should be added? Although the latter are somewhat similar to Skynet Terminators.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.18.254.141 (talk) 15:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  More pop culture references 

message: speculative fiction, rather than a scientific journal or paper, but GB's 1983 award-winning story (short, then novel) nails a lot of the same fears & anticipations somewhat earlier; he deserves a mention here, higher-placed than the popular culture section, for his prescience.
duncanrmi (talk) 22:31, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Currently reading the novel - while the scenarios have similarities Blood Music is about bioscience/tech risks while grey goo is about nanotechnology risk. Not sure to what extent these are alike (note there could also be risk from a mixture of bio & nanotech). You may add some info on this using this reference: . I do think that info on the two scenarios' similarity and difference should be featured then. --Fixuture (talk) 21:28, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  greg bear & "blood music" 

message: I don't understand how this scenario is being treated even a little bit seriously by anyone. It clearly violates the second law of thermodynamics, and combines all the most implausible aspects of both The Blob and the philosopher's stone  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.1.13 (talk) 23:23, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  How is this considered in any way feasible by anyone?
Talk:George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie

message: He is remembered for his half-hearted performance as Thatcher's campaign manager when she was voted out in 1990. Many felt he could have saved her career if he had not been distracted by his banking interests. Valetude (talk) 12:53, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thatcher's campaign manager 

message: This article originally directed people to the page on the William Younger brewery of Edinburgh. George Younger's family ran a different one, in Alloa. Zythophile (talk) 17:55, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family brewery
Talk:Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg

message: More about the reduction from 15 to 11 departments can be read here (sorry it's in German):
http://www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/prmit_layout_alt/prmit.php?ind=237
--zeno 09:45 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
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Shouldn't we call the University Albert Ludwig WITHOUT the final "s" in Ludwig?! I mean, the "s" has a reason of being when you call the University in German, but NOT in English.
--Kensai 09:20, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why isn't the name of the article in the original German? I think it makes more sense that way. --Liface 23:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

message: Does this have a place anywhere in the article (or in a different article)? Thanks, Yonatan (contribs/talk) 19:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incident
Talk:Process (disambiguation)

message: Actually, a computer switches between threads when multitasking. A process can spawn many threads. Threads within a process share the same memory space. --82.77.40.8 10:41, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Computer multitasking and threads

message: It was an advance when we, as a civilization, realized that not all things have to come about by procedure, but rather can occur naturally, without the behest of a volitional agent, or by an act of will. Thus the natural in the first sentence of the article. A process can be natural. A procedure occurs by intention. --Ancheta Wis 15:01, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Processes can be natural
Talk:Åfjord

message: I thought we didn't use "diacritical marks" in article titles becuse of searching problems.  The normal way, used in Norwegian as well as English, of rendering the letter Å is by Aa.  That's what most Norwegians would search on in an English text.  All the other locations in this article use Aa.  I think the Norwegians use Å in all these cases, but I don't know for sure.  In the meantime, I am going to create Aafjord  to make a redirect. Ortolan88  — Preceding undated comment added 18:30, January 29, 2003
:I think the aversion against language-specific characters such as Norwegian Æ - Ø - Å is a relic of the early computer age when systems really balked when trying to process these non-standard characters. I'm not sure how much difference four-and-a-half years (since the above entry was submitted) has made on the perception of this issue, but I do sense that it is generally accepted today to let the system handle also these characters without any user intervention. __meco 21:27, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not a problem now, and wasn't a problem in 2003 for browsers etc. to render characters which are not part of the base ASCII character set. He raises a valid point as to searching, but that has, as far as I can tell been solved here, by using a redirect from Aafjord to this article. Jerazol 05:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Graviton

message: Does it travel faster than light? Nothing traveling under the speed of light can escape a black hole and if it doesn't leave a black hole the hole will not attract other objects.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.199.45 (talk) 01:53, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Planting a flag here on ideas for the hypothetical graviton and a different narrative consistent with experimental observation. Imagine that there are two fundamental particles, the electrino and positrino, which are -/+ 1/3 charge. Black holes are like compost piles - the more matter and energy added, the hotter the core gets, until it ignites and the ingested matter-energy is decomposed into electrinos and positrinos and form a plasma. An electrino/positrino pair in the plasma could be called a graviton. Gravitons are emitted/jetted via the polar jets of sufficiently energetic SMBH. The gravitons in the plasma can decay in energy and at sufficiently low energy they can emerge from the plasma as standard matter particles. For example, a free graviton (electrino/positrino pair) is a neutrino. An electron is a triplet of electrinos. A positron is a triplet of positrinos. It's easy to reverse engineer the standard model chart. This is a new hypothetical narrative, so I am only planting a flag here, not suggesting article changes at this time. J Mark Morris (talk) 18:15, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

text: This is a dead comment for certain but I would like to clarify for future readers: the graviton is massless and therefore doesn’t experience any gravitational force. A theory of quantum gravity will be needed to explain how it escapes the screwed-up spacetime behind the event horizon, but the graviton has no issue escaping a gravitational field. OverzealousAutocorrect (talk) 18:42, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  How does it escape a black hole? 

message: The description of the last section is redundant. It talks about gravity being non renormalisable, but in a language that ignores the notion of effective field theory. It is not a problem per se for a theory to be non-renormalisable. Once you have done a few measurements you can even _use_ this EFT. For instance the Fermi theory, you need to measure the four fermion interaction and then you can use this EFT to some higher energy scale. Same for gravity. This should be written more clearly. Pitorki (talk) 07:38, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last section / difficulties 

message: I deleted a subsection of history named "Gravitons in speculative theories". Gravitons are speculative already. These works were not in any way "history". Only one could be considered possibility notable by citation count but there are many many "theories" of gravitation. Picking any without using a review reference is not fair. Johnjbarton (talk) 15:55, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gravitons in speculative theories
Talk:Zeppelin bend

message: I don't think it's fair to call the Zeppelin bend "easily the most effective bend."  
It is a great knot, but often the more easily tied sheet bend is better.  Rracecarr 21:50, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, this knot is very tough and so easy to untie even after it has been under tension but the sheet bend is so fast and easy. There are plusses and minuses for all types and it isn't really good form to claim any knot as ideal.--Lead holder (talk) 08:33, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Most effective bend?

message: This bend may be formed, it seems, by proceeding as for Granny knot: Left over Right, tuck under,Left over Right ,  but then instead of tuck under, here you tuck the final working-end down between the lower cross-over. SignedJohnsonL623 (talk) 08:55, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative tying method 

message: Regarding deleted content, why are these photos and content "unclear"? Perhaps some could be removed, but others seem to be helpful. Any suggestions on improving the content and layout is requested. Jim1138 (talk) 04:18, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Unclear clutter"
Talk:Seyfert's Sextet

message: The link on the "Number of galaxies" inside the picture box is just the front page of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. So I searched for the Sextet in that database and could find nothing that claimed 4 galaxies.  Inside the preamble of the article it states "six members, but one ... is a background object and another ... is part of the tail [of a constituent galaxy]". In fact, if you look at this "background object",  NGC 6027d, it is a barred spiral in its own right.  That makes 5. Either one of the other visible items is not a galaxy (which would then support 4) or this needs to be changed to 5. Jyg (talk) 20:15, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is that correct?  "Number of galaxies 4"
Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia3 documentation

message: I would highly recommend putting software internals documentation & discussion like this on the meta-wikipedia rather than trying to stuff it into the English-language encyclopedia section's wikipedia: namespace. --Brion 00:57 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
I know that but as you know the meta-wikipedia is getting in chaos. Oh, well, anyway this is not proper space either. I will post a message regarding this to wikitech-l (because it seems there is only place to discuss the technology side of wikipedia). -- 140.190.68.157 02:02 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
Should this just be deleted? Or redirected to any meta-documentation there is... Martin 15:43, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Divine right of kings

message: If they are executing people for crimes against god, and the supreme leader/Ayatollah is acting on behalf of god, is the Islamic Republic worthy of a mention in this article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.150.37.101 (talk) 03:45, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islamic Republic of Iran 

message: The article should be more general, to include the divine right of presidents and other non-hereditary leaders, otherwise it has an binding to hereditary and aristocratic leaders only, which needs clarification if actual or not. Also the topic should distinguish between believer and non-believer leaders who may claim divine right.-Inowen (nlfte) 23:34, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. The DROK is a specific concept used by Historians for the ideas that were full-fledged in England from Henry VIII until Cromwell and the Puritans.  Talking about other things is interesting but not particularly relevant.  The article needs to be much more sharply focussed on its topic.Rick Jelliffe (talk) 04:41, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Divine right 

message: The introductory paragraphs of this article, being without citations, give an extremely peculiar account of a name that, it should be noted, is used with incredibly imprecise breadth in many places.  The origin of the particular 'definition', if it is not entirely new, would be helpful, even if the 'definition' is corrupted in its current form.  Whatever the case, substantial revision is likely needed, although an actual presiding principle of how to define such an ill-used term will be needed in this.
(Moreover, it appears that the article expressly contradicts itself in some areas as of now - see, for example, how one part emphatically denounces the suggestion that Thomas Aquinas allowed 'extra-legal tyrannicide', while another supports it.) Zusty001 (talk) 22:46, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Leads don't need citations per MOS:LEADCITE—blindlynx 20:55, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

text: The opening paragraph is a bit of a sesquipedalian run-on, seemingly written by a undergrad phillosphy major who is eager to show off.  Like that bar scene in the movie 'Good Will Hunting'. 2601:152:C100:2D56:94A7:BFBE:8E60:4A8E (talk) 19:20, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:   I have moved digressive and excessive material from lede to new start section "Concepts". The lede needs to summarize the contents in a small number of focussed paragraphs. I may also add some dating. Rick Jelliffe (talk) 04:43, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content and meaning of introductory paragraphs 

message: At present the article lead is accompanied by a portrait of Henry VIII and a reference to his being made Supreme Head of the Church of England. But no reference is made to this in the article text, and rightly so because his becoming Supreme Head of the English Church 25 years after coming to the throne had nothing to do (or only very tangentially so) with his divine right to be king of England. I suggest that it be removed.Sbishop (talk) 15:24, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is article headed with a portrait of Henry VIII?
Talk:Maple sugar

message: I removed the claim that maple sugar is twice as sweet as (table) sugar. Table sugar is 100% sucrose, and maple sugar is 90% or more sucrose with the remainder being sugars whose sweetness roughly averages out to the same as sucrose. The reference is a how-to article on about.com with no supporting references. I left the part about using maple sugar in place of sucrose, since it's at least reasonable, though the reference is the same unreliable web page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paleolith (talk • contribs) 06:43, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweetness
Talk:Northern Territory

message: The 2006 Census revealed that of the Northern Territory's population, 68.4% is of European descent. 64,491 (30.6%) English with 44,662 (20.2%), Irish with 14,346 (6.8%), Scottish with 11,759 (5.6%), German with 7,729 (3.7%) and Italian with 3,308 (1.5%). Indigenous Australian people make up 32.5% of the Northern Territory's population, while Chinese people with 4,081 make up (1.9%).
68.4% + 32.5% + 1.9% = 102.8% !?! Perhaps some clarification is needed.
Bozzio 11:19, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I saw on some other page that, according to the ABS, this is because some respondents identify more than one descent. Wikiain (talk) 23:46, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics? 

message: Area of the NT is given as 1347791 in the infobox and 1,349,129 in the text. A trivial difference but the two should agree. Doug butler (talk) 20:09, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrepancy
Talk:Roller coaster

message: Adding this here for future reference, the Car_gwyllt was invented by the Welsh in 1870, which used by quarrymen to go down the mountain for either ease or fun, worth adding this to the article as it is closely related to rollercoasters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hogyncymru (talk • contribs) 00:01, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Car Gwyllt 

message: In the Scenic railways section, change "a 8.7-mile" to "an 8.7-mile" in order to use the proper English article preceding a word beginning in a vowel. Z3a1 (talk) 19:54, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I actually removed the length altogether, since it wasn't cited with a source here or in the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway article. --GoneIn60 (talk) 22:53, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 May 2018 

message: Text and references copied from Roller Coaster to Hybrid roller coaster.  See former article's history for a list of contributors.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:30, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Text and references copied from Hybrid roller coaster to Roller coaster.  See former article's history for a list of contributors.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:03, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Attribution

message: Just wanted to pop in as a heads up for anyone still active on this page. I'm planning to rework this article, so if anyone has any suggestions, please drop in and add them.
Coilebethany (talk) 15:46, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Edu
Talk:Twin-lens reflex camera

message: User:Barrytoogood added this to the article re: interchangeable lenses:
: (Wrong - Mamiya lifted the idea from the early 1950s French top-end Rex Reflex, which was a commercial failure, but had a similar detachable lensboard with paired lenses).
--88.109.229.4 04:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interchangeable lenses 

message: ''
The Mamiya C series TLRs had interchangeable lenses, allowing focal lengths from 55mm (wide angle) to 250mm (telephoto) to be used. The simple, sturdy construction of many TLRs means many have endured the years well. Many low-end cameras used cheap shutters however, and the slow speeds on these often stick or are inaccurate.''
The Mamiya Cs still have interchangeable lenses -- because these cameras endure.  The low-end cameras still have cheap shutters, as they have endured was well, though in drawers and closets.  The slow speeds on low-end TLRs may be inaccurate, but saying they stick adds ambiguous meaning.
Also there seems to be another TLR with interchangeable lenses.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.158.68 (talk) 14:42, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weak writing -- but important information
Talk:Push printing

message: In reality, the article confuses two types of "push":
*Push developing (where the film is "pushed" from ISO 400 to ISO 800 by leaving it in the developer bath for a longer time)
*Push printing, which is what the (excellent) example image show: The same process performed on the photo paper.
Push developing gives the best results, but may have problems with grain. It also increases contrast.
Push printing will not have grain, but has less potential for "push". When prints are made manually (not by a machine), "push" development is performed as a matter of course.
-- Egil 08:09 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
:Ouch.  I should stop with the photo articles then.  Can you help correct the article?  Koyaanis Qatsi
::I have never heard of 'push printing'. All negatives print differently, and while you can under-develop a print, you can't over-develop as the paper develops to finality. RA-4 is a standardised process where you 'could' over-develop, but why would you? The resulting print will be pants. I think what this article is referring to is under-exposure in printing to compensate for a thin neg, and since there are no references, I wonder if it's a hoax article. Can someone prove me wrong? Baffle gab1978 (talk) 08:42, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never heard of the term either. Shortening exposure of the paper is part of the normal process of fitting a negative's content within the confines of the paper's dynamic range. The article Push processing also provides a better explanation of pushing film. I suggest simply replacing this pages content with a redirect to Push processing. Reub2000 (talk) 17:13, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

text: Thanks for your comments, Reub2000; I'll re-direct in a week, if nobody objects. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 20:30, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled