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Talk:Archaeology/Archive 1

message: What does Ötzi the Iceman have to do with paleontology?  Also, why is he mentioned by name to the exclusion of all other mummies?  --Smack 03:30, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I too was curious about this. Eventually I rationalised it as a geological reference to the glacier that moved him about but it hardly seems like introduction material. Surely palaeontology is about fossils, not mummified Neolithic dudes. --adamsan  07:33, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

text: Ötzi the Iceman can't be linked if he's not named. Archaeology is an approach to lost culture, without a cutoff date: in England, archaeologists have uncovered the long-lost layouts of medieval villages abandoned after the Black Death and the equally lost layouts of 17th century parterre gardens. In downtown New York archaeologists have exhumed the 18th century remains of the Black burial ground. Wetman 15:18, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Currently the introduction states that palaeontologists study past life, excluding humans, but then mentions palaeontology in connection with Ötzi, a modern human. I think Smack's first question was asking about this apparent contradiction and requesting clarification. Please could you explain further adamsan  18:21, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: Thanks Slrubenstein that's much more comprehensible. adamsan  19:45, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: Interesting point - looks like a whole theoretical can of worms to me. adamsan  18:31, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: To clarify, it looks like it's down to whether you see the subject as being closer to anthropology or history. Take a look at the discussion at the top of the page, the archaeological theory subsection and Processual archaeology for more info on the differing ideas on this subject. Perhaps Archaeological theory could be a candidate to be spun off as I note we're now up to 43KB on the main page. adamsan  19:45, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Range of the field of Archaeology
Talk:Lamington

message: A good image. But I'd suggest that a more typical appearance is like these. This link also hints at the popularity of the cake in Malta, presumably because of returning migrants from Australia. Anyone who has been to Malta will know that these are commonly on the menu. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:41, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: The Guardian article which "proves 'beyond doubt'" the lamington is of New Zealand origin is an April Fools joke. 60.242.1.97 (talk) 08:18, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe this should be included and explained for what it is, in the article? Martinevans123 (talk) 11:14, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin - 1st April 2014 edits 

message: I'm probably doing this wrong, so I'll apologise in advance. Having said that, why would anyone tag a term as old as "Lamington drives" with [citation needed]? A simple Google search for the expression returned more than 700,000 hits, & all the first page results confirmed the ascribed meaning. (As did my entire school career, but of course that's not a citation.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.121.59 (talk) 10:16, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: We don't all live in Australia or South Africa. Just choose one of those 700,000 (that looks reliable, and even interseting) and add it as a source! Martinevans123 (talk) 10:22, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Lamington drives

message: While we are legitimately interested in when and where the name "lamington cake" originated, it is possible that the recipe itself is older than the name. The reason I say this is because I noticed this recipe for Cocoanut Balls in an 1893 Queensland newspaper which is very similar to a lamington only one assumes they were using a white frosting rather than a chocolate coating given the instruction "until they look like balls of snow". It would be interesting to know if there are recipes for lamingtons that precede the use of the name. Kerry (talk) 22:43, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of Lamingtons 

message: The article says raspberry lamingtons are available in New Zealand with an implication that they're not in Australia, but almost any time I see chocolate lamingtons, raspberry ones are right beside them.  This was the case in northern Queensland and Melbourne at least.  Here's a photo I took yesterday from a bakery in Melbourne.  
I don't know anything about the editing and sourcing process on Wikipedia so I didn't make changes to the page but that bit seems misleading as-is. Obitussin (talk) 21:45, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raspberry Lamingtons
Talk:The Hedge Knight

message: The article says several times that The Hedge Knight takes place in 208 AL. The novella has no date in it. However, in the graphic novel (checked and okayed by George RR Martin) it is explicity stated that the tourney takes place in 209, up to several months before the Great Spring Sickness kills King Daeron, Valarr and Matarys. I have altered it accordingly.--Werthead 18:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Date
Talk:Darwin Mounds

message: Who discovered the mounds and who gave it the name Darwin Mounds ? Jay 10:29, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The answers are in the article. --Bardcom (talk) 10:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discovery? 

message: The references for the Darwin Mounds are invariably described as either being off the North West coast of Scotland, or the North West Coast of Great Britain.  I've corrected the text and provided an extra reference annotation.  The existing references also confirm the location.  --Bardcom (talk) 10:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Location of the Darwin Mounds
Talk:Universal Abit

message: All Abit motherboards use chipsets by Via, correct? Suggest this is added, nVidia's chipsets are very much the default, so this is quite important.
No abit uses chipsets from ATI/AMD, SiS, Nvidia, Intel, Via, and ULi (now owned by Nvidia). Bwave 02:07, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

message: Is it just me, or does this page sound a bit too fanboy-y? ABIT may be a great company, but this is just gushing with praise every step of the way.
:I agree; the POV on this page is so thick you can cut it with a knife. I'll see what I can do. -lee 17:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV edit

message: I've added the copyvio text again because a couple of paragraphs were pasted from a hardware review site. The best solution might be to delete the offending paragraphs, since they're not NPOV anyway. -- Mikeblas 00:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Per WP:CV, I've deleted the offending text. (I did a little copyediting, too.) I didn't realize the offending text could be extracted from the article; given that it can, we have an easier solution. -- Mikeblas 17:53, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  copyvio 

message: Their website now consistently uses the name abit (not ABIT), except in the title that's almost all caps, and they have apparently made this an official change.  I'm not sure if the best course of action really is to change every single occurrence on this page to match, rather than leave it be or possibly go halfway with a more traditional Abit.  They also have a new logo that reflects their new-found love of lowercase. Aluvus 05:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name and logo change 

message: What are the tiers of motherboard manufacturers?  And who assigned Universal abit to the 2nd tier? patsw (talk) 23:02, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  2nd Tier
Talk:2004 United States presidential election controversy, exit polls

message: The article tries to point out that the discrepancies between exit polls and actual results were greater at e-voting places, but the cited reference  does not give a mathematical calculation of this (1 in 50,000 refers to the chance that Bush did better than exit-polls preedicted over-all). Does anyone have a reference for the e-voting discrepancies? If not, it could be fairly easy to calculate given the raw data (by performing a chi-squared test or similar - I assume that someone, somewhere, has done this). The article says that the discrepancies at e-voting booths are significantly greater, but this is a precise statistical term and should be backed up with numbers.  — Asbestos | Talk 11:36, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics for exit poll/actual result discrepencies

message: The article about the recall referendum referenced a poll by a "firm that was hired by businessmen who were almost surely opponents of Chavez". 
But in the Venezuelan_recall_referendum%2C_2004#Claims_of_media_bias paragraph says other polls, some conducted by the opposition, were close to the results.--P8 07:48, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Venezuela comparison 

message: I am about to delete our statement that "Unofficial results currently indicate a victory by George W. Bush over John Kerry." Merecat already did this, but it was reverted by RyanFreisling (along with other edits), with a request for discussion here. I am considering replacing the deleted statement with "Leaked exit poll results indicated that John Kerry led George W. Bush in the popular vote, but official counts recorded more votes for Bush." Any comments? -- Avenue 00:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The deletion looks fine to me. -- User:RyanFreisling @ 01:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stale information
Talk:Nicci French

message: What is that supposed to be? I have read all books by Nicci French but have never come across this one. amazon.com doesn't know it either. There are no Google hits for this title. There is not even a mention of this book on Nicci French's own website! So whoever wrote this list, would you please provide a source or delete the title, thanks! - Or do you perhaps mean "The Moment You Were Gone"? That was written by Nicci Gerrard, not Nicci French. --Katie1971 (talk) 12:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like it was a short story that was published on its own. Look here. It also passes the google test and looks like it definitely "exists". It should not be removed from the author's bibliography.Gwynand (talk) 13:01, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK cool! Thanks for finding that out for me. - I had googled for it but not found anything! Thanks again Katie1971 (talk) 09:25, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The People Who Went Away"?? 

message: I don't think there is an issue regarding "notability". Nicci French books sell by the bucketload, they are rather good and at least one has been made into a Hollywood movie (namely Killing me Softly).82.110.248.146 (talk) 16:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I've removed the tag, I don't see any current argument for contention over notability. Gwynand | Talk•Contribs 16:15, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: Kirkus Reviews has covered at least 10 books by Nicci French. See Search Results: "nicci french" (page 1) where they do not all show up as the top listings, unfortunately, so consult page 2 at least.
2 or 3 starred reviews: The Red Room (2001) and Blue Monday (2012). Maybe also Killing Me Softly (novel) (1999) for which search results display one star but there is some mixup concerning Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love, ed. Gardner Dozois (1995). Neither one of the reviews shows the star, only the search report.
--P64 (talk) 22:43, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kirkus Reviews 
Talk:Network security policy

message: Would it not be best to use keep unauthorise personel out instead of "keep the bad guys out"
   Using "personnel" not "personel" maybe!  "Keep the bad guys out" says the same thing less formally.
I'm more concerned at the statements around network security policy being 'a document several pages long written by committee' and 'complex'.  Well-written policies (and/or higher level principles or axioms) avoid complexities, laying out the fundamental rules simply and straightforwardly, ideally in just a page or two.  Details about specific network access rules etc. are normally documented in lower-level security standards, while the processes for managing network security are documented in lower-level procedures and lower-level guidelines offer pragmatic assistance on all the above. 
NoticeBored (talk) 19:58, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Sir Ector

message: What story places Sir Ector's home in the north of England or the south of Scotland? Malory calls him "a lord of fair lyuelode in many partyes in Englond & walys": in particular he has "grete lyuelode aboute london". Franey 13:25, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Does his wive have a special name? If she has, please add.--Hun2 17:39, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that I've ever seen.--Cúchullain t / c 22:16, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I read somewhere that when the sword from the stone broken in battle, a blacksmith made the Excalibur for him.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.36.252.195 (talk) 07:07, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sword in the stone and Excalibur 

message: Was Arthur called "Wart"?80.141.164.118 (talk) 17:40, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In The Once and Future King and the Disney movie, yes.--Cúchullain t/c 17:45, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wart" 

message: As well. 5.173.77.148 (talk) 07:22, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name should be something like "Ector (Arthurian legend)"
Talk:Black Friday (shopping)

message: It's often been said that Black Friday prices are offered at other times of the year and/or that regular prices are rapidly marked up so that they can be "brought down" during Black Friday. Take this BBC article on Which?'s findings for this year for example: 
Of course the counter-argument that immediately springs to mind is "of course they're going to be at the same price or cheaper given how many other sale events are held throughout the year", but surely some sort of mention is due?--Dvaderv2 (talk) 18:51, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of price manipulation? 

message: The introductory text currently states, first, that “Black Friday is a colloquial term for the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States”, then, that Black Friday occurs “on the last Friday in November”. These characterizations differ for years such that the 1st of November is a Thursday (such as in 2018). For such a year, Thanksgiving occurs on the 22nd of November (fourth Thursday), thus, “the Friday after Thanksgiving” is the 23rd of November whereas “the last Friday in November” is the 30th of November. This contradiction should be fixed (which I didn’t do because I don’t know which version is the right one). OlivierMiR (talk) 13:39, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: OlivierMiR, this was just a good faith but mistaken IP edit and has been reverted. As you note, Black Friday is not always the last Friday in November. John M Baker (talk) 18:46, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  “the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States” ≠ “the last Friday in November” 

message: If you multiply the number of shoppers by the average spent, the product is much higher than the numbers in the total spent column for the years before 2017 (2005-2014).
Are the numbers copied directly from the NRF data? Where can the data for these years be found? The surveys are also preliminary, i.e. they are asking people if they plan to shop on Black Friday, and how much they are planning to spend. Are some numbers from the survey and some from actual retail results? Sardtok (talk) 09:59, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retail sales impact table numbers don't add up 

message: This page appears to be experiencing a high amount of vandalism. NesserWiki (talk) 09:55, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page should be updated to "Auto Confirmed Protection" 

message: — Assignment last updated by Kiki6789 (talk) 21:44, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Research Process and Methodology - FA23 - Sect 202 - Thu
Talk:Medway Megaliths

message: I have reverted the moving of Cossington and Great Tottington as they are settlements if not villages and appending megalith to the names is inaccurate (there are several stones) and not a common name. adamsan  14:42, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  
Talk:Bowel obstruction

message: The second sentence of the following paragraph is wrong and also isn't a converse of the first. For instance, inflammatory strictures can present in Chron's disease completely regardless of whether the patient has endured abdominal surgery in the past. Removing it now.
Small bowel obstruction caused by Crohn's disease, peritoneal carcinomatosis, sclerosing peritonitis, radiation enteritis, and postpartum bowel obstruction are typically treated conservatively, i.e. without surgery. Conversely, a small bowel obstruction in a "virgin abdomen" (an abdomen that has not seen an operation) is almost never treated conservatively.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oleflar (talk • contribs) 16:26, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

message: can anyone please classify causes into luminal, mural and extramural. would be a great addition to the article 92.40.254.42 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 16:58, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  classification 

message: — Assignment last updated by Abilli4 (talk) 14:17, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Wikipedia for the Medical Editor
Talk:Suro of Geumgwan Gaya

message: cool... There's an article about my great-great-great-great-great-all the way up grandfather!!!!!!! 66.214.242.93 04:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  wow  

message: According to the dates he would have been about 170 years old when he died, but this looks seriously doubtful. Is there any commentary about that? Like the King's list being messed with?--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 02:35, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The dates

message: It's amazing. This is a wiki-page of my great-great-great-great-great grandfather. It's hard to see some people are vandalizing. Don't vandalize the page. Kim Jae Woo Jimin (talk) 07:35, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Same, we are related then lol. Bionarchy (talk) 01:46, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amazing
Category talk:Climbers

message: Most people in this Category, and its sub Cats other than :Category:Mountain climbers, are there by mistake.  For most purposes, the distinction between "climber" and "mountain climber" is not important, but WP makes clear that some significant forms of climbing are not cases of mountain climbing.  Presumably most climbers do some mountain climbing, and probably it is even rarer for someone to be notable as a climber without being more notable as a mountain climber.  
This is the sort of problem we should expect in the early phase of Cat assignment; no point in being upset about it.  I added a description to the Cat, which may help.  And i'm recat-ing some  egregious examples, tho i don't have the persistence to truly clean it up, nor the saavy to recognize any cases that should be left as they are. 
--Jerzy(t) 16:39, 2004 Nov 30 (UTC)
:I see no particular reason to try to subcategorize here; nearly all climbers notable enough to have WP articles qualify under all of "mountain climbers", "rock climbers", and "ice climbers"; one does rock in the summer and ice in the winter, and mountains when one is feeling energetic. :-) We have plenty of micro-categories already, let's not add more by making artificial distinctions. Stan 02:19, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That blurb on this page is the most tortured I have seen in any such case. It just isn't realistic to expect people to follow this and even to add an explanation of their decision on each talk page. I should think that the most likely outcome of anyone taking this seriously is that they won't bother to do any categorisation at all for fear of criticism, and it would be much better to let people get on with it and deal with any reallocations later. Anyway, is it possible to be notable for flat-land free climbing? Philip 01:33, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier comments
Talk:Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg)

message: From Orange Order#International effects:
:was seen as the first proper victory in battle for the League of Augsburg, the first ever alliance between Catholic & Protestant countries. William's victory was celebrated in Rome by Pope Innocent XI who ordered the singing of Te Deums in the city's major Catholic churches
Were the Papal States a part of the league?
::No; the Pope just didn't care for Louis very much. Robinvp11 (talk) 18:06, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: The Pope

message: sorry for that, I just started an article of the thing at Great Alliance, that being the term I was more familiar with. please check and merge. Well, yes, I could say a couple of mor pages about the subject. --Olaf Simons 09:40, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Great Alliance

message: If the Holy Roman Empire was a member, wouldn't that include all of its territories by default? If so, why are some of them listed individually in the first paragraph? Wikipeditor 22:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it wouldn't. Lower princes were obliged to defend the Reichsfriede, but often didn't or even sided with the enemy. The Empire was not some modern unitary nation state; it was more like a supranational entity. You could compare it with a NATO operation; it would still be useful to list the actual participants.--MWAK 17:48, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Members 

message: WHAT HAPPENED AFTER WORLD WAR TWO!
I'm pretty sure that dosen't belong in this article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.143.155.253 (talk) 21:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WW2 

message: This topic reads as if it was sponsored by the EU.
After a quick look at the EB and other online sources, the whole 'European union' thing appears to be a rewrite of history.
I looked at the biographies of individual commanders of the forces of the grand alliance, and none mentioned that the commander became a 'hero of europe'.
And what is with the fashion stuff. It's a historical article on a military alliance in the modern era, not an article on rennaissance/modern era fashion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.62.162.197 (talk) 16:29, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  EU rewrite of history? 

message: what's left of it?  I mean, it would be a good advice - somehow...               ! Wikistallion (talk) 15:58, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  After thoughts on Corona 2020