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Talk:USA for Africa

message: Is it permitted to quote the full lyrics on the page, as someone has done?  isn't this copyvio?  Also, who's "Allen"???? ChrisTheDude 14:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Most of the information you are all debating on this discussion page relates to the "We Are the World" recording and session. The page about USA for Africa should be about the organization, its members, its philosophy, and its contributions to help the people of Africa.  I see nothing here about the amount of money raised, how the money was allocated, etc.  I seem to recall that a great deal of the food purchased from the "We Are the World" profits was actually stolen and/or squandered due to political uprisings and issues with transportation, but none of that is here as it should be.  If you all want to write lyrics, debate which members sang or contributed to the song "We Are the World," etc., you should go to that page to do so.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.229.138 (talk) 23:04, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: We Are the World vs. USA for Africa

message: I just added wikilinks for the performers.
Is it Randy from the Jackson 5, or the bassplayer from Journey? I first assumed it was from the Jacksons, but I see that Steve Perry (also from Journey) was also present, so I'm assuming it was Randy Jackson from Journey. That's where it points for now, anyways. --Geddeth 12:20, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which Randy Jackson is it? 

message: Among the artists listed is Paul Gallacher.  But that goes to someone who clearly isn't him, and I cannot find anyone associated with this project by this name, including on the USA For Africa web site.  Allmusic.com has an entry for a Paul Gallagher, but that doesn't look like him either.  Can anyone (especially whoever added this name) check/verify?  Danke.  Fractalchez 09:51, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Gallacher? 

message: Watching the video on YouTube, it looks like Quincy Jones is conducting the ensemble. Shouldn't he be mentioned in this article? __meco (talk) 14:43, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quincy Jones 

message: I have seen and heard that Prince was supposed to appear in the USA for Africa video, but did not because of some bodyguards. Can anyone write this up and add a source? StevePrutz (talk) 06:13, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prince did not sing (need refs) 

message: I am not familiar with the wikipedia discussion process, sorry if there are guidelines I am not following. My discussion relates to the inclusion of  Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Snoop Dogg, and Kanye West. Clearly these individuals (all 90s and 2000s artists) were not on the original 1985 recording. Could someone shed light to why they are included? Is this an error?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.223.181.37 (talk) 02:29, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion of Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Snoop Dogg, and Kanye West
Talk:Gingerbread

message: Gingerbread is considered to be a traditional sweet in Russia, and is extremely wide-spread there. It would make sense to reflect that in the article. --Humanophage (talk) 15:54, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian gingerbread?

message: Ginger cake is quite different to gingerbread and should not redirect here. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:57, 18 July 2011 
(UTC)
All right, the article does say that gingerbread can be soft cake, but I have always thought that that was ginger cake and that gingerbread is hard, being rather similar to a ginger nut biscuit. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 10:40, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Ginger cake should not redirect here

message: Gingerbread is more like a biscuit,which is often made into shapes - such as the famous
gingerbread man. Ginger cake, which has a darker colour, is more like a sponge cake. Ergo, we should not get redirected here if we type "ginger cake".ACEOREVIVED (talk) 22:44, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Explanation for last comment

message: Some time ago, I suggested that ginger cake redirecting here should go in Redirects for discussion. Even if my proposal were defeated, should the fact that it was made be mentioned here? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:53, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The redirect question

message: This is a minor question concerning syntactical propriety. Cementing an absolute answer for me will be useful in the future, however, so I welcome your advice.
When this article makes mention of this first monk, is it proper to end any and all years mentioned within his lifetime with 'AD', or 'BCE'? I know it's quite obvious just which era it is, given that he's a christian monk, but should we include it, irrespective of that?
:Definitely not BCE which is "Before the Common Era" or "BC". The question is whether AD or CE or neither should be used. Personally I think that neither is required in this case. There is no real likelihood of people thinking it is BCE. Dabbler (talk) 20:52, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyediting question 
Talk:Polyalphabetic cipher

message: This is a little odd. The summary form of this article in Substitution cipher is actually somewhat larger and has more factual content than this article! - Ta bu shi da yu 07:35, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree that it's a little strange; see Talk:Substitution cipher#To do. — Matt Crypto 07:49, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Here vs [[Substitution cipher#Polyalphabetic substitution]]

message: Just a note from a Wikipedian curious about cryptography. I googled to find Morelli's page About the Alberti cipher  and think it might make a useful source. It includes howto information. At present I'm simply trying to solve a clue given in the Starfest 2005 House of Vampyr Treasure Hunt. <>< tbc 16:22, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Ralph Morelli's Page
Talk:Linear cryptanalysis

message: Well, in fact everybody knows (and Matsui himslef acknowledges ti in his paper) that LC was first invented by Hneri Gilbert and his student: 
see Anne Tardy-Corfdir, Henri Gilbert: 
A Known Plaintext Attack of FEAL-4 and FEAL-6, 
In Crypto'91, LNCS 576, Springer, pp. 172-181, 1992.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.241.89.189 (talk • contribs) .
: Hmm. Linear cryptanalysis seems to be widely attributed to Matsui. For example, Alex Biryukov, in his entry on "Linear Cryptanalysis" for the Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Data Security, asserted that the technique was introduced by Matsui in 1993. — Matt Crypto 18:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment from page
Talk:RC5

message: "At the current rate, it will take approximately 120 years to test every possible remaining key, and thus guarantee completion of the project.[4]"
I checked their home page and it says "This also means that we'll hit 100% in 87,428 days at yesterday's rate." As 87,424 days = 240years I think the Wikipedia article is wrong. It should take approximately 120 years before the cipher is broken (because you will statistically only have to test 50% of the keys) or 240 years to check test every possible remaining key, right? /Inuit77
http://stats.distributed.net/projects.php?project_id=8  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Inuit77 (talk • contribs) 13:59, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Or maybe just fewer people are running distributed.net these days? -- intgr [talk] 02:14, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time to crack 72-bit key
Talk:Charles Sumner

message: In the Notes section, there are several citations of McCullough with pages listed but no source text listed. What book are these notes citing?
See notes 13-16, 18, 46, 48-52.
209.184.117.138 (talk) 17:59, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  see David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (2011)  Rjensen (talk) 20:07, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notes/Citations 

message: Regarding the discussion of whether Sumner's passed law allowed or prohibited Mongolians to become naturalized, I find it hard to believe that a senator who tried repeatedly to strike the word "White" from naturalization laws would have attempted to bar anyone. Billmckern (talk) 17:55, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Historical Interpretations

message: He published the book with the title shown above. This is shown here White slavery in the Barbary states : a lecture before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, Feb. 17, 1847 : Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
I believe it should be mentioned in the article. WordsAreNotViolence (talk) 01:21, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "White slavery in the Barbary states"
Talk:Rosie's Place

message: One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s).  Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:01, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Bernstein v. United States

message: I have found the below text pointing to this article.
Maybe its some guide to you on the importance of the subject.
Maybe someone can make use of it for improving the article itselves.
--09:25, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Guidance

message: Editors of Bernstein v. United_States are invited to work on Apple v. Does. —Christiaan 01:18, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Apple v. Does]]

message: Does this case trump the DMCA provision banning the publication/distribution of software that circumvents content access controls if the software is distributed in source code? I could see how binaries (and definitely machine code) would be an issue, but distributing programs as source to be compiled by the user themself shouldn't be an issue if the code is speech. It's possible that the compiler (if it's distributed with the circumventing program's source) would be illegal but then people could just (assuming they have the technical know-how, which most don't) compile the circumventor themself.
SteveSims (talk) 22:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You could try to make that argument in court, but whether it would win or not is another matter. If you want legal advice, best consult a lawyer, and if you find one who will tell you for sure how such a case would be decided, I'd suggest getting a second opinion. --agr (talk) 20:21, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: DMCA

message: Quoting from the article:
The government modified the regulations again, substantially loosening them, and Bernstein, now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, challenged them again. This time, he chose to represent himself, although he had no formal legal training. On October 15, 2003, almost nine years after Bernstein first brought the case, the judge dismissed it and asked Bernstein to come back when the government made a "concrete threat".[2]
And quoting from WP's WikiLeaks:
US Senator Joe Lieberman, who first called on Amazon to shut down WikiLeaks and then praised the company after doing so called for other companies to follow suit.[148] 
Does the latter constitute an example of the former's "concrete threat" ?
The judge requests him to come back!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.193.1.142 (talk) 00:10, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it clearly does not constitute such an example. -- Jibal (talk) 10:22, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concrete Threat?
Talk:Lists of Macedonians

message: I transfer this article to the talk page until it is duly corrected as it contains information which clashes with either NPOV or with the mere facts. VMORO
 
 *Alexandar Makedonski - the worlds greatest emperor.
 *Filip Makedonski - king and father to Alexandar.
 *Saint Kiril - educator and inventor of the first modern letters - Cyrillic.
 *Saint Metodij - educator and inventor of the first modern letters - cyrilical
 *Saint Kliment - pupil of Cyril and Metodij and educator, put the base of macedonian orthodox church.
 *Saint Naum - pupil of Cyril and Metodij and educator.
 *Djorce Petrov- macedonian revolucioneer, fighting against otoman empire, killed by bulgarian secret police in Sofija.
 *Goce Delcev - macedonian revolucioner and vizioner, fighting for fredoom of Macedonia from Otoman empire. One of the organizors of the first Balkan uprising against the turks in 1903 in Krusevo , Macedonia.
 *Pitu Guli - One of the leaders of the macedonian uprising in 1903 in Krusevo and member of the council of the first ever free teritory in the Othoman empire called Krusevo Republika.
 *Jane Sandanski - macedonian revolutioner, leader of the macedonian uprising in 1903 and president of the Krusevo Republic.
 *Konstantin Miladinov - Macedonian poet, writer and linguist.
*Dimitry Miladinov - joint editor of the first almanach of macedonian poetry,prose and grammar called "About macedonian matters" with his brother Konstantin. Book was edited and printed in Zagreb with a very genereus help of the Zagreb archbishop Josip Juraj Strosmayer.
 *Konstantin Miladinov edited the first almanach of Macedonian poetry,prose and grammar called "About macedonian matters". Book was edited and printed in Zagreb with a very genereus help of the Zagreb archbishop Josip Juraj Strosmayer.
*Marko Cepenkov - macedonian linguist and collector of the folklore stories and legends, editor of the first Macedonian stories and legends book.
*Kosta Racin - autor and poet, his work belongs to the clasical parts of macedonian modern poetry. Killed in 1943 by accident as partisan figting for freedom of Makedonia.
*Krale Marko - peoples legend and figter against the Othoman empire.
*Blaze Konevski - linguist,author and profesor of macedonian language.The author of the modern macedonian language.
 *Kiro Urdin - modern macedonian painter, living and working in Paris.
*Kiro Gligorov - first president of independent Republic of Makedonija.
 *Kiro Tomoski - producer living in Prague.
 *Branko Crvenkoski - president of Republic of Makedonia.
 *Boris Trajkovski - second president of Macedonia, died tragically in plane accident in 2003.
--
I 've redirected this article to Macedonia for now.
MATIA 16:31, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Kri-kri

message: I can't get the 'name' part of the taxobox to work, that is Schinz who first classified the subsp. The reference should be Schinz | date = 1838 - can someone please help? Mtiedemann 10:32, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Simple enough fix... _parens, not _simple. I also debolded the species and genera, and used the G. s. subspecies standard which is now in favor. 68.81.231.127 08:53, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Stick-fighting

message: Amusing how despite there being a picture of sticking fighting in Indian martial arts up on this article there's...no mention of it in the list...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathi  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.156.226.220 (talk) 17:03, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm wary of labeling Kendo as 'stick fighting'.  It's true that they use wooden weapons, and indeed that, in competition, those weapons are straight rather than curved like a proper katana, but I'm pretty sure Kendo should be classified as a sword school.  After all, martial arts that indisputably should be called sword methods (e.g. the many varieties of kenjutsu) use wooden weapons, but they are plainly wooden -swords-.
One meaningful difference is that a 'stick' (a short staff) is wielded very much differently from a sword.  While "sticks" can be swung in a sword-like manner, "stick" techniques also employ, for instance, sliding thrusts and grip changes that would be absurd if wielding a sword.
--GenkiNeko 00:23, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kendo is Stick Fighting? 

message: In the introduction, we find the following line: "but thicker and/or heavier bananas such as clubs or the mace"
Is "banana" a technical term?  If so, can it be explained or linked?  Or is this a case of amusing vandalism?  Mat Teja (talk) 11:13, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banana? 

message: Really? "...simple long slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden 'sticks'". Kortoso (talk) 22:44, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of stick? 

message: TapTheForwardAssist (talk) 04:08, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncited Sakhalin claim removed
Talk:Sai Kung District

message: Hope this page looks nicer now. Next task for me is to take a photo of Tseung Kwan O sometime (probably the view from my window :-p). TKO has 95% of Sai Kung District's population, so it's only fair that the article has a photo of urban TKO to balance all the photos of rural Sai Kung. Just so chaps don't form a wrong stereotype of life in our district :-p --Lapin rossignol 16:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Touched up 

message: This article has been saying since 2003-09-21 that the district is the 2nd largest, and since 2005-12-27 has had the clarification that this is in terms of area. But it never was. I wonder where that came from. :-)
Fixed. 
It's quite remarkable to see how the page has developed since the two comments above were written, a decade and a half ago. The District, Town and Peninsula all have their own pages now, and the District page has a nice aerial photo of TKO New Town and the surrounding greenery. Thank you, fellow Wikipedians! Here's to the next decade and a half! — clacke (talk) 03:57, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Very common problem of wikipedia. People just WP:OR the content without any real work on reading book to act as citation. It is in term of population or land area or land and sea area? Since there is no citation i would rather like to chop the content. Even the data in Districts of Hong Kong, had missing the citation. Matthew hk (talk) 13:07, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

text: Despite it indeed correct in term of land area. https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp150.jsp?productCode=D5320189 (2018 ed.) Matthew hk (talk) 00:24, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fifth largest district
Talk:Kwun Tong

message: Unreferenced stub, no indication of independent notability MB 16:08, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 09:52, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Sai Tso Wan, Kowloon]] into [[Kwun Tong]]
Talk:Marand

message: In initial version of the page it was stated that
:The name MARAND comes from MIRANDA and some people say that it is called marand because it is the place that Noah's mother is in it.
Please provide evidence for this claim to bring it back to the article. --Pouya 12:04, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Eyepiece lens

message: Yikes! Needs work. I'm on it. (So does telescopes, but that's a bigger job, and I'll start with a smaller article.)
There used to be a note to merge this page with telescopes, but there is no need. There is plenty to say about eyepieces.
So far I have corrected the entirely wrong original.
Beetlenaut 12:41, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: I've added over 500 words, so I removed the "stub" note. There is much more I could add (types of eyepieces and history), and some images would be nice, but maybe I'll work on the telescope page first. It could use some help too.
Beetlenaut 11:41, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's a real page now
Talk:El

message: This "disambiguation" page only has one thing on it! Brianjd 12:13, 2004 Dec 16 (UTC)
:Certainly seems "fixed" now (-:-- era (Talk | History) 19:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

message: The Hellenic is coming from here?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.103.15.40 (talk) 06:56, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ellenic

message: Is there a policy or something to dissuade one from putting the meaning of "el" in Spanish here?  Does the same word also exist in related languages (Catalan, Portuguese ...?)-- era (Talk | History) 19:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish word "el" 

message: I removed wiki links per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) and now some of them are back.  The manual says :
:Unlike a regular article page, don't wikilink any other words in the line, unless they may be essential to help the reader determine which page they are looking for; these pages aren't for exploration, but only to help the user navigate to a specific place. Thus:
:    * "Dark Star", a song by the Grateful Dead — or — "Dark Star", a song by The Grateful Dead
:    * not: "Dark Star", a song by the psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead
 
Could we please come to consensus on what we're to do with links? Tedernst 09:45, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't knew about it. Not sure that I agree, but fire away! Nikola 17:23, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, well, I removed the links and now some of them are back.  Are they essential? Tedernst 20:04, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I put them back, I thought they are important, but didn't knew about the rule. I won't put them back if you remove them again. Nikola 13:40, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  wikilinks 

message: * Jor-El and Kal-El are two characters in all major versions of the Superman mythology
Are either of these characters known as simply "el" such that someone looking for either of them would end up on this page?  If so, then obivously, they need to stay on this page.  If not, however, they shouldn't be here. Tedernst | talk 23:04, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  superman 

message: A.  Shouldn't that be under L not El
B.  Elevated train lines are most certainly still used in New York City, and should not be mentioned in the same sentence as Chicago.
C. It is called the El, because it is an elevated train. It is incorrect to spell it as L.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.134.253.76 (talk) 12:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  chicago L
Talk:Wong Tai Sin District

message: :File:Wong Tai Sin District Logo.svg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a non-free use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
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-- Marchjuly (talk) 01:50, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for File:Wong Tai Sin District Logo.svg