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Talk:Carlingford Heights, New South Wales

message: Re: does this deserve own article?
Honestly, I don't know. It was listed as one of the places in the Baulkham Hills Shire, and it's also in the street directory, and I think it was also in the GNB database as a locality, so that was the only reason I added it. Basically if it hadn't been listed as part of Baulkham Hills Shire, I wouldn't have bothered. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 01:28, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Basil Pao

message: I just want to say that this is a pretty badass encyclopedia entry, and this "Basil Pao" dude definitely ranks up there among the greatest of Americans. God bless him and his family. Jon Hart 01:59, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Why compare him to Americans at all?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.146.12.33 (talk) 08:27, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Pao features prominently in the HK segment of Around the World..
The article is lacking in essential detail. DOB, for example. Early education? 
Can we do better? 81.153.69.107 (talk) 22:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A fairly important figure/dob?
Talk:Great frigatebird

message: (Aah its all coming back to me) - now I remember this as having an amusing epithet minor despite it being the Great(er) Frigatebird. Does anyone have a refernce and a reason for this as it is an amusing trivia bit for the lead. (I might have to google this....) cheers,  Casliber | talk  |  contribs 22:45, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: At a guess it was described at the same as the Magnificent Frigatebird, which is bigger. And then aquired the common name much later. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 23:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Or maybe not. I'll look it up on the BNA website later. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 23:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the synonym it was originally in the same genus as the pelicans. I guess the friugatebird was smaller than the pelican, hence minor. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 20:31, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I think that makes most sense. The Magnificent was not described until much later. But it might be good to discuss this in the text; for one thing it is funny, for another - I have seen not a few pre-20th century sources which actually refer to F. minor as the "Lesser" frigatebird, so such a note will help editors to look at their sources closely. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 20:10, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  amusing scientific name 

message: Does 'deceptive' have a scientific meaning, or is the opening line of the article trying teach you how crafty the Great Frigatebird can be?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.136.100.138 (talk) 20:56, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: deceptive

message: In December 2023, CBS released a story that the Great Frigatebird is being used to obtain weather measurements during their flight.  There are some older stories about how they have been used to study both the weather and the health status of the Frigatebirds, if I'm reading it correctly.  Here are some links:
* Great frigatebirds soar to help Bay Area scientists collect climate data  (CBS News)
* Tracking Pirates of the Caribbean: An Interview with Dr. Rhiannon Austin (BirdsCaribbean)
* Frigate birds track atmospheric conditions over months-long transoceanic flights Weimersk (Bangor University)
* Cyclone avoidance behaviour by foraging seabirds (Scientific Reports)
I encourage updating this list with any additional pertinent sources or other modifications to this list. Fabrickator (talk) 07:56, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frigatebirds help in studies
Talk:List of countries by Human Development Index

message: So the changes only happened in mostly Western countries but Africa and most Asians have not? So why update in some countries and not all? 197.250.197.104 (talk) 16:23, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why??? 

message: Tanzania was 0.549 in 2021 and in 2022 its 0.532??? Does not make any sense when the country has been moving forward 197.250.225.197 (talk) 15:02, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty sure there’s a new HDI calculation. Last year’s 2021 data BOtswana was 0.693 but for this year’s 2021 it was 0.680 and went up to 0.704 in 2022. 48JcL48 (talk) 01:49, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tanzania  

message: The colors for different categories in the image, which divides HDI into intervals of 0.05, lack distinctiveness, especially for the categories of 0.95-1 and 0.9-0.95. Can anyone choose a better color type? --傻蛋小魔王 (talk) 16:40, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, you only really see the difference when a 0.9-0.949 country is bordering a 0.95-1.0 country 48JCLTalk 02:04, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The colors on the map lack distinctiveness  

message: in earlier revisions, there was a naming dispute over Eswatini/Swaziland, but it was kept as Swaziland due to the UNDP report saying that. So, I think it’s appropriate to change the Taliban flag to the UN recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan flag. 48JCLTalk 02:08, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Afghanistan 

message: In the 'List' section, the sentence before the table states that the data is from the 2022 report. This should be changed to the 2023 report, as the data has been updated to that from the UN's report from 2023. 119.234.6.24 (talk) 10:11, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: The data given in the table matches that on  (page 274) which may be from a 2023 report but it uses 2022 data. --Ferien (talk) 15:45, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 20 April 2024 

message: It seems odd to me that the annual % growth starts from 2010 while the change in rank starts from 2015. I personally think both should start from 2012 as this would cover changes from the last 10 years, but regardless they should both start from the same year. Koiramainen (talk) 20:08, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annual growth and change in rank should start from the same year 

message: 176.42.140.28 (talk) 14:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 14:59, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2024
Talk:Mahbub ul Haq

message: The Human Development Index (HDI) is a standard UN measure/rank of how developed a country is or is not.  It is a composite index based on GDP per capita (PPP), literacy, life expectancy, and school enrollment.  However, as it is a composite index/rank, some may challenge its usefulness or applicability as information.
Thus, the following question is put to a vote:
Should any, some, or all of the following be included in the Wikipedia Infobox#Countries|country infobox/template:
:(1)  Human Development Index (HDI) for applicable countries, with year;
:(2)  Rank of country’s HDI;
:(3)  Category of country’s HDI (high, medium, or low)?
YES / NO / UNDECIDED/ABSTAIN - vote here
Thanks!
E Pluribus Anthony 01:52, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''[[Template_talk:Infobox_Country#VOTE.21.21_-_HDI_in_country_infobox.2Ftemplate.3F|VOTE!!]]''' - HDI in [[Wikipedia:List of infoboxes#Countries|Infobox#Countries|country infobox]]/template? 
Talk:The Middle (Jimmy Eat World song)

message: Does anyone else think this song is really fits into the genre of surf rock (or at least some sort of revival) and should be accordingly marked? 173.54.200.196 (talk) 21:52, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Without a reliable secondary source making that claim, it would be original reasearch to state it in the article. Also, no, it isn't surf rock in any way, shape, or form. --IllaZilla (talk) 02:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surf Rock 
Talk:Phone monkey

message: I removed the link from receptionist. Hopefully thats okay?
:  I put that there, as it is my impression that "phone monkey" is a neologism, which is not part of Wikipedia's mission.  However, the phrase does get around 10k Google hits (although some of those are for people selling phones in the shape of monkeys), so it may well be notable enough to deserve its own article.  If you're interested enough in the subject that you reverted my redirect, I imagine you're interested enough in making a good Wikipedia article.  Instead of putting the redirect back, I'm going to put up a cleanup tag, and invite you to check out WP:STYLE.  Welcome to Wikipedia.  Jkelly 04:54, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's a term which is used. Perhaps as a slang term it's not really encyclopedic, but it could be moved to Wiktionary? Note that gofer gets an article here. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 10:25, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Talk:List of countries by life expectancy

message: The OECD list only shows 44 entries and doesn't allow a full comparison between all countries in the world. zsteve21 (talk) 18:40, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the OECD list be removed? 

message: The table is messed up; the order is off and you jump from 73.5 to 75.5. Personally I think the CIA data is probably better 2600:1702:9F0:D140:C0D9:D6B7:EF1:302C (talk) 11:49, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  OECD data is wrong 

message: I suggest that the row for Bermuda is removed, since it is not s country. Jens Ahlström (talk) 10:07, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair point. A number of territories should be removed in that case, including Palestine. There is no such country.2A02:2454:985E:8900:7C32:8FE7:565:2782 (talk) 21:37, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bermuda 

message: self explanatory 2601:640:8B80:E4E0:70C3:B72C:BD02:2DEC (talk) 05:16, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graph is unreadable if colorblind 

message: The new Human Development Report (for 2022) contains life expectancy data which could be added to the United Nations table Ly.n0m (talk) 23:49, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  New HDR 

message: Look at Brazil. The chart lists its lofe expectancy as 77 years, but it's shaded in light green for 73 years. 201.26.161.98 (talk) 09:47, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  2021 world bank map is incorrect
Talk:Erdős–Straus conjecture

message: The Swett link appears to be broken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.229.7.84 (talk • contribs) 02:41, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link

message: I very much doubt the correctness of this section in Generalization: Hagedorn proved a related conjecture of R. H. Hardin and Neil Sloane that, for odd positive n, the equation 3/n = 1/x + 1/y + 1/z is always solvable with x, y, and z also odd and positive.
A proof of this conjecture would be trivial: Let x = y = z be n.
Ocolon 22:33, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correctness of a related conjecture 

message: How about a couple of simple examples to illustrate?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.131.188.159 (talk) 03:39, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think 4/4 is a great example because it's not in lowest terms, but I replaced the complicated example in the lead section with a much simpler one, 4/5. Is that close to what you meant? —David Eppstein (talk) 07:27, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples? 

message: In the section Negative-number solutions it says
:The restriction that x, y, and z be positive is essential to the difficulty of the problem, for if negative values were allowed the problem could be solved trivially via one of the two identities
::\frac{4}{4k+1} = \frac{1}{k} - \frac{1}{k(4k+1)}
:and
::\frac{4}{4k-1} = \frac{1}{k} + \frac{1}{k(4k-1)}.
These have only two terms on the right side, so what are x, y, and z in each case?Loraof (talk) 16:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Making an expansion longer is easy. You could replace one of the two fractions   in this expansion with either  or . —David Eppstein (talk) 17:01, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification requested 

message: It would be nice to give a table or list of numerical examples—each solution for, say, n up to 10 or 15. Loraof (talk) 01:14, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: A table or list of numerical answers even for those solutions up to n = 15 would be too large and would not particularly benefit the article. I get my students to check out the following site about Egyptian Fractions in general (section 6.1.1 is really useful if you are looking for all solutions of the shortest length for a particular value of n): http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fractions/egyptian.html#shortCalc
AirdishStraus (talk) 15:23, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numerical examples 

message: فرمول این حدس را پیدا کرده ام و این حدس کاملا درست است Mohammad ghanbary (talk) 21:45, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: We use English on talk pages here; see WP:ENGLISHPLEASE. And unless your work has been properly peer-reviewed and published in a respectable mathematics journal, it is original research and off-topic; this talk page is only for discussing article improvements and we can only base our article content on reliable sources. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:54, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  حل مساله حدس اردیش و استراوس
Talk:Chinois

message: Is chinoise common in non-American English?  Chinois is the standard spelling in American English in my experience.  Amazon.com suggests chinois as a spelling correction for chinoise.  Google has 71M results for chinois, 30M for chinoise. --Jheiss (talk) 14:05, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: 1) I have not previously seen a distinction between a chinoise and a china cap, but concur that, given this distinction, that the included photograph is indeed a china cap, and not a chinoise.
2) An important difference between a colander and a chinoise is that the latter is often used with a pestle (for example, to press boiled solids in order to extract as much liquid as possible) where the former drains passively.  I would not consider them necessarily the same tool.
John Younger 01:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinoise
Talk:Rabbiting

message: I would like to expand this stub. I did it once before, but it was deleted and put back to how it is. I showed my finished product to my friends and stuff, and they agreed with me that it was nice. I would like to know how I can expand this and keep it.
:A series of edits to this article were deleted recently because they were a copyright violation -- it's illegal for Wikipedia to use text from something someone else wrote, so it had to be deleted.  If you write something on your own, it's almost certain it would be kept.  Your contribution would certainly be appreciated!  -- Avocado 04:04, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: p.s.  you can sign your comments by typing two dashes followed by four tildes (~), like this: --~~~~ .  The tildes get automatically turned into your signature.
I don't have a siggy.
"Its good fun to catch the rabbits and break their necks." seems rather sadistic and possibily POV, I think this line should be removed --64.246.115.190 15:46, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article claims "In the UK the hunting of rabbits rarely involves dogs." Personal experience would suggest the most popular methods are, in descending order 1) Hounds, 2) Ferrets 3) firearms. Hounds and ferrets have the advantage that if you are caught poaching with them (and most bunnying seems to be technically poaching anyway) the most likely result is being told to &%^$ off and the worst that will happen is a small fine. Poaching with a firearm, even an airgun, has far more serious consequences ranging from trespassing with a firearm (fairly serious) or carrying a firearm in a public place without lawful authority (if you're heading for land which you don't have permission to shoot over you don't have a legal reason to be carrying a gun QED).
All of the above is just the opinion of somebody-I-know-who-isn't-me of course ;-)
In the absence of any challenge and the fact the line is unreferenced I'll either delete it or rephrase it so it doesn't need a reference. 92.41.239.77 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 10:24, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rabbiting in the UK. 

message: — Assignment last updated by Miami2024 (talk) 00:33, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: EDT 251 - Research Skills and Strategies
Template talk:Culture of Poland sidebar

message: I've updated the template.  I changed the layout and added an image.  I'll keep my eyes peeled for a different image, something that better captures the essence of Poland's culture.  Perhaps a painting of Mickiewicz or Chopin.  I find that the best pictures are ones that have nice colors, are wider than they are high, and look good at thumbnail sizes.  That last requirement unfortunately eliminates most of Matejko's works, which are quite detailed. Appleseed 03:02, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Superbase

message: Why do you say inorganic bases are "not really" superbases? They can actually be stronger Bronsted-Lowry bases than the organics. Lithium nitride, for example, appears to be stronger than many organolithiums, having a (singly protonated) pKa of around 100!
- Its an issue of terminology.  Superbase needs to mean something other than just 'strong base,' because we have a term for that.  As a synthetic chemist, I would consider a superbase to involve mild conditions, ease of use and low nucleophilicity.  Inorganic bases do not come to mind when I think of these mixtures of qualities.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Regniweol (talk • contribs) 21:00, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

message: In the superacid page it has the strongest known acid. What's the strongest known base? — Daniel 05:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 1,2-diethynylbenzene dianion. Also, the oxide, nitride, carbide ions are still stronger bases than . Alfa-ketosav (talk) 09:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strongest 

message: Superbase was the name of the first Windows based database software that appeared in 1989 from a small U.K. company Precision Software, and was later sold to Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) in 1991.  In 1996 another group of investors bought the rights to Superbase from SPC.  The product was similar in use to the dBASE-like products that were popular at the time, but Superbase was based on a variant of the BASIC programming language.  I submitted a short writeup on Superbase to be added to Wikipedia on Sept 26, 2006 and am hoping they eventually add an entry for it.  TWR  (once of Ashton-Tate and an early Superbase user.) (preceeding comment by user 69.234.5.220)
:This is wiki, there is no "they" there's only "us", if you register for an account you'll be able to create the article yourself Astaroth5 07:36, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superbase was also name of an early Windows database product 

message: In the introductory paragraph, it reads "The hydroxide ion is the strongest base possible in aqueous solutions, but bases exist with much greater strengths than can exist in water."
While this is grammatically correct, the phrasing is confusing. I think it might be clearer if it read "... in aqueous solution, however there are bases of greater strength which cannot be used under aqueous conditions as they would deprotonate water irreversibly and inactivate themselves. These superbases are used under anhydrous conditions, often in ether solvents."
If someone agrees with this, please feel free to accept this edit.
Am0210 (talk) 05:48, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Phrasing of the Introduction is Somewhat Confusing 

message: If fluoroantimonic acid is the strongest superacid known to man, what is the strongest superbase known to man?
ScamsAreHorrible172 (talk) 09:01, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: diethynylbenzene dianion. boochin (talk) 15:42, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superbases
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Zoroastrianism

message: Okip   23:12, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Referenced living people articles

message: I would like to make the suggestion that Manicheism, be added to wikiproject:Zoroastrianism as it is already under the scopes of the Wikiprojects of Christianity and Bhuddism. --Zaharous (talk) 13:46, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Manicheism

message: A new editor keeps changing the year of Zoroaster's birth to 5000BC. I'm aware that around 500BC would be a reasonable enough assertion, but 5000BC isn't remotely credible. PhilKnight (talk) 17:17, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zoroaster birth date 5000BC? 

message: I have nominated Tiridates I of Armenia for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 17:48, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR for Tiridates I of Armenia 

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Talk:Little Dixie (Missouri)

message: Pre-Civil War this area was known as the Boonslick Democracy while towards and after it was known as Little Dixie.  The area is located north of the MO river and is mostly flat (being on a Glaciated Plain). In this area there is a lot of Antebellum architecture and plantations.  This architecture is different from the German architecture found in the Missouri Rhineland, the French influenced English architecture found east in the Lincoln Hills (Hannibal) and the architecture of St. Louis (South East), all of which is significantly different from the architecture found in the Ozarks!!  Here's a good link on it http://missourifolkloresociety.truman.edu/marshall.html .  Oddly enough Little Dixie sits north (and overlaps slightly west) of the MO Rhineland, settled by Germans, many who were abolitionist.  The area, as most of MO, is the site for many bloody Civil War Battles.  Also they have a different dialect from the surounding areas - Hannibal, St. Louis, and the MO Rhineland.
Anyhow...  Little Dixie is more like a cultural/dialect area and not a geographic area... Geographically it is a Glacial Plain that was once a prairie. 
Some Links;
 Although Hannibal, town where Mark Twain grew up, is part of the Lincoln Hills, which is hilly hence the name, and not Little Dixie, which is flat, and was settled by those leaving St. Louis - who were also sympathetic of abolitionist. Ahhh Yes, the Complex and Sophisticated Missouri Cultural Heritage...— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.246.221.216 (talk • contribs) 20 September 2005 (UTC)
: Please, add that to the article!! --Awiseman 00:29, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heading 

message: It would be useful to have all 17 counties listed, and to have two maps, one showing the 17-county area, and one showing the heart of Little Dixie.--Parkwells (talk) 22:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name all 17 Little Dixie counties