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Talk:Southern Syria

message: We have "Southern Syria .... is a term that refers to the southern part of the Syria region, roughly corresponding to the Southern Levant and more specifically mostly referring chronologically to the southern part of Ottoman Syria provinces." sourced to "Kazziha, Walid. The Social History of the Southern Syria (Trans-Jordan) in the 19th and Early 20th Century. Beirut Arab University. 1972."
: I don't have immediate access to that book, but I wonder why the text cited to it appears to contradict the title of the book. What does the book say and what is the page number? Zerotalk 11:33, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  I cited the source not for the whole sentence, but for the second part. Will fix it.GreyShark (dibra) 20:40, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wonder about Kazziha source 
Talk:Lucas primality test

message: Am I the only man to notice that this test is VERY similar to the Pratt's certificate?! 89.176.110.147 (talk) 21:04, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, I do believe Pratts certificate is based on Lucas' primality test. More broadly, a Pratt certificate is any statement that can be used to verify the compositeness or primality of a number, deterministically, and in polynomial time.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.34.32.46 (talk) 15:32, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarity to the Pratt's ceritificate 

message: Regarding the primes q that divides n-1. I have two questions on generalizability of this method.
# In practice does q necessarily have to be prime?  Do we gain any value employing Lucas' test knowing only that q is a probable prime? Or are we wasting our time?  If we know all the q's are either prime or probable primes (Fermat or Miller-Rabin), does this add confidence to our results?  I accept that this would make Lucas a probabilistic test, but Im curious if its significantly stronger or weaker than a series of Miller Rabin tests. What if its run in conjunction with Miller Rabin?  Suppose n was a M-R strong probable prime, and I then run Lucas, finding a base a and a series of prime and (Fermat or MR) probable primes q that passes Lucas. Never mind computational expense, Im curious about the strength of the condition.
# In practice do we have to run "ALL" the q values?  I understand the theorem statement just fine; I know it HAS to pass all in order to give deterministic results. But suppose Id be happy, again, reducing Lucas to a probabilistic primality test.  Suppose I cant factor n-1 all the way, but have a fairly large list of factors nonetheless.  Do I get probabilistic results passing the Lucas with the prime factors I DO have?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.34.32.46 (talk) 15:49, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Curious about generalizations
Wikipedia talk:Press releases

message: In august/september 2004 summing up Wikipedias in all languages we will reach 1.000.000 articles (see ). We should distribute an international Wikimedia press release in as many languages as possible (more than the 500.000 release's 18). We should also use the time to clean up the introductionary stuff - especially in the little wikipedias.
If the 1.000.000th will be written around september 6-9: there is a UNESCO conference called "New ignorances, new literacies - learning to live together in a globalizing world" in Barcelona:
 --Nichtich 15:22, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: Is this where there would be discussion about the fact that the 2 million mark for all wikipedias is imminent? Nroose 04:38, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 million is imminent 

message: Hasn't been updated in years.. -- œ™ 12:40, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, as one of the people on the list, I've archived it.  --  Zanimum (talk) 01:53, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mark as historical? 

message: Please add the following hatnote: . When I searched "WP:Press releases" I was looking for Wikipedia's guideline on third-party press releases, not a historical page on press releases from Wikipedia. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 17:25, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:30, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks . Out of curiosity, do you think full protection should remain on this page? After looking through :Category:Inactive project pages, I don't see any other historical project pages under full protection, and it does not look like protection was necessary in the first place to prevent disruption. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 16:05, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: No opinion - since it  a historical page, I don't see a particular reason for unprotection, either. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 16:51, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Fully protected edit request

message: I created a disamb page Wikipedia:Press release, it would be useful to have a hatnote on top that links to it. Carpimaps (talk) 14:26, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 21 February 2023
Category talk:American songwriters

message: How do I add a name to this list?  The link is already shown on the subject's individual page, but it is not listed here.Apace361 20:06, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you add the category:American songwriters with open and close brackets at either end to the article of the individual, it should appear in the category automatically. Try refreshing/reloading the page on your browser; if it still doesn't appear, check for typos. It should work. -- Infrogmation 00:37, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

text: What article are you talking about? Let's take a look. -- Infrogmation 17:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ADD LINK
Talk:Cover (intelligence gathering)

message: Umm, we are aware that other countries use NOCs, right?  This reads like a hit-piece on the CIA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.55.5 (talk • contribs) 05:19, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Not just CIA

message: Either this article is plagiarized from the novelist Jack King's web site, or Jack King plagiarizes from Wikipedia, since identical text appears on <http://spywriter.com/robots/noc.html> with "© Jack King".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.183.120.121 (talk) 23:35, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  plagiarism?
Talk:65 Cybele

message: Which source gives that 320 km diameter? Only sources I can find (IRAS, occultation) give a diameter of about 240 km. Jyril 16:57, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Source

message: Most of the links to source data here are broken. Not sure what code to put it to report it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dickpenn (talk • contribs) 10:33, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken Links 

message: At a mere 300x230km there is no reason to think Cybele is a dwarf planet. Even icy Kuiper belt objects will have a hard time being dwarf planets at 270km. Cybele is a disrupted failed protoplanet. Ugh, "Wikipedia Fail 2015"... -- Kheider (talk) 05:54, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's certainly possible it's collapsed into a sphere. To point something out...Phoebe is under 200 km, but it was quite clearly once round. Meaning, the boundary is at the lower end. An object at about 220 km will still collapse into a sphere. Phoebe proves this, but it was then captured and battered out of HE. So 200 km is the lower limit, or thereabouts. --DN-boards1 (talk) 06:03, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: 200km is a lower limit for ICY objects, not rockier objects bashed around by other rocks in the asteroid belt. Asteroids less than 500km in diameter will not be dps. -- Kheider (talk) 06:15, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dwarf planet? 

message: why are we mentioning routine occultations from 7+ years ago? Is there something special about them? Geogene (talk) 16:00, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather: Why should they not be mentioned? Was no information gained from them? Note that this does not mean the presentation cannot be improved. --JorisvS (talk) 17:32, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

text: I have a slight preference for keeping the section, but it could use a more useful re-write. -- Kheider (talk) 20:20, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: My position exactly, too. --JorisvS (talk) 20:39, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no interest in the recent occultations themselves (which is the way they're currently presented-simply that occultations happened somewhere). But if useful data was obtained from observing them, then I think they ought to be mentioned in that context (with the new information). I don't have any sources on whether the the recent occultations produced information worth mentioning or not. No objection at all to the older events that were significant to the history of understanding the asteroid, and are mentioned in that context. Geogene (talk) 20:43, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Occultations
Talk:Farnborough Airport

message: While obviously substub this shouldbe a possible article. Give us a while to stub it.
Shouldn't the title be Farnborough Airport instead of Airfield?
Esquierman 10:22, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Kenton, Tennessee

message: The information listed about the white squirrels needs to be fixed. The information is conflicting, and should not be conflicting publically. As for now, I am editing the page to leave the "Trivia" section to say that the white squirrels live in Kenton. In the future it would be pertinent to discuss such potential changes on the talk page, like I am doing now. --65.4.235.82 09:59, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi! I have created two sections - fauna and culture - we generally frown upon trivia sections, so I blended them into appropriate areas which can be expanded on. :) Feel free to take a look at WP:Trivia for more details on policy. Thanks everyone! SarahStierch (talk) 17:42, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  White Squirrels 
Talk:Paul Marshall Johnson Jr.

message: I removed the link, as they are not needed at all. Kris Classic 17:49, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Decapitation Pics

message: Obviously someone owned the villa where the remains were found.  Has Saudi Arabia caught the persons responsible, and have their families been forced to offer blood money?  I think this piece would be better with this additional information in it. --Jackkalpakian 23:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing material 
Talk:Gamgee Tissue

message: Gamgee Tissue survived vfd. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Gamgee's tissue -- Wile E. Heresiarch 21:03, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: The Sam Gamgee / cotton wool connection is 100% certain. It appears in one of Tolkien's letters, referring to a letter which was written to him by a descendant of Sampson Gamgee.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.39.26.1 (talk) 14:54, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: As the source of Sam Gamgee's name
Talk:Oswald Boelcke

message: Hello,
The following German sources are available for use by a German-speaker:
"Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945: Spezial-, Hilfskriegs-, Hilfsschiffe, Kleinschiffsverbände" by Erich Gröner
"Rettungsaktion Ostsee 1944/1945" by Martin Schmidtke.Georgejdorner (talk) 01:33, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  German references
Talk:Chiton

message: What about the article of early Greek clothing also called the Chiton? Thats what I'm trying to research.
:That would be also known as a tunic 24.82.139.12 08:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A note

message: Is :File:Chiton tuberculatus plates.jpg upside down? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:24, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  File:Chiton tuberculatus plates.jpg 

message: In this section, I found the following sentence:
I removed the italics. Could anyone please tell me if this was the right decision?--Thylacine24 (talk) 15:03, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was this the correct use of italics
Talk:Betel nut beauty

message: Changed to reflect first hand experience.  They are still there, but they do longer are
dressed to cause traffic accidents.
Roadrunner 20:16, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Traffic accidents
Talk:Hollywood Left

message: Record of Votes for Deletion discussion:
It seems like a bit of an odd article to me. It is, after all, about something that only allegedly exists. Kelisi 19:29, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

message: I have preposed merging the following articles to the LIBERAL ELITE article. 
*Hollywood Left
*Champagne socialist 
*East Coast liberal 
*Gauche caviar
*Limousine liberal 
*San Francisco values 
*Chardonnay socialist 
*Massachusetts liberal 
*Chattering classes
Firstly, they all say much of the same thing and secondly if they were all brought together it would give a worldwide viewpoint instead into "Liberal elitism" instead of having a US bias. I will copy this message on all the other article talk pages. All discussions should be done on the LIBERAL ELITE talk page so that all discussions are kept together. — Realist2 (Who's Bad?) 05:36, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In case the proposed merger does not go through, "Liberal Hollywood" should redirect here. --Trrri333 (talk) 01:19, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger
Talk:Ann Jones (tennis)

message: Surely she's better known as Ann Jones? Deb 20:20, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Her date of birth may or may not be right:
*www.tennisfame.com says 07 October 1938
*www.itftennis.com says 17 Oct 1938
--Toddy1 (talk) 05:39, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth
Talk:Dana

message: This page is asserted to be a disambiguation page, and if intended as such needs a clean-up to conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages).  There is an awful lot of information there whch might need to pulled out separately first - for example the information on Dana as a surname.--A  Y  Arktos 23:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect that people with the first name Dana should be listed separately if somebody thinks that is a good idea, they should not be part of a disambig page unless very very very famous for being called Dana.--A  Y  Arktos 23:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The way I see it, most of those entries don't belong here, unless, as you say, they are known for just 'Dana'. DABs are not intended to list all people with Dana. Besides, most people will search using both the first and last name. Look at Joseph, for example. We don't want to have a dab page for every name... Would it be too extreme to say 90% of people listed should be removed? Gflores Talk 21:08, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Removing all people with first name Dana would not be too extremein my opinion.  As suggested above they can have their own page if somebody thinks that might be encyclopaedic (I don't).  Only people likely to be called by their last name should be included - ie very notable - removing nine out of the ten listed seems fair enough--A  Y  Arktos 21:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I think the list should be deleted entirely. It is so large that it just duplicates a Wikipedia search on Google for "Dana". -- Centrx 01:15, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: While I myself see little purpose, I believe there is a demand for such a list and it help keeps this disambiguation page cleaner by meeting that demand.  It would not duplicate a search as it is more organised.  You would expect of course that many of the people found by a search are on the list, however, the list includes brief information about who they are which helps in the finding.  What remains on this page I think accords with the dab mos, including what is included.--A Y Arktos\talk 01:51, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page may need a clean-up
Talk:Linear system

message: Should the causal property be included here?
Not all linear systems are causal.
Not all causal systems are linear.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CSears (talk • contribs) 23:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: is the current statement wrt causality correct? -Happyseaurchin (talk) 12:22, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Causal property 

message: The article says a linear system "can be described" by a linear operator H that maps x(t) to y(t).  But the article doesn't say HOW the linear operator H is used to describe the system, and it doesn't say what x(t) represents or what y(t) represents (other than calling them the "input" and the "output" which is uninformative).  Does x(t) represent the state of the system?  Does y(t) represent the state of the system?  How do I find x(t+1) given x(t)?  The rest of the article never even mentions H again.
AT MINIMUM the article needs a physical example of a linear system using the same notation H, x(t), and y(t).
Halberdo (talk) 04:34, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition very unclear 

message: "Linear system" has a wide usage in mathematics and does not specify this particular application, The usual term is "linear systems analysis" or a little more precisely, "linear systems-analysis". JFB80 (talk) 15:37, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate title 

message: I couldn't find any info about incrementally linear systems. Just an idea for expanding the article. Dalba 11:59, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: "Incrementally linear system" seems not belong to the standard terminology. Do you have a definition or a source where this phrase is used? D.Lazard (talk) 14:02, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incrementally linear system
Talk:Chimaera

message: Why is this article called "Chimera (fish)", when all of the content refers to it as "Chimaera"? --Timc 21:13, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I just like the ae spelling, sorry :) --Obli 19:43, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: No. The fish almost certainly gets its name from the mythical creature due to its mix of features from bony and cartilaginous fishes. --Belg4mit (talk) 14:34, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That would certainly be of value to the article. do you have any references? FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:13, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: Would it be justifiable to add a reference to "ratfish" as a name? In this 1962 Golden Encyclopedia, that is the name they are listed under. ~Linuxerist  E/L/T 02:21, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ratfish

message: The introductory paragraph to Chimarea (fish) has been vandalized. Please fix the ludicrous comments made in the paragraph to correctly summarize this fascinating fish.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.106.203.202 (talk) 15:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please fix the introduction 

message: This article needs to be cleaned up. There is evidence of vandalism everywhere.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fyu (talk • contribs) 06:35, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  vandalism  

message: What are the bony traits ratfish possess? Is this mix responsible for (as posited above) their group? --Belg4mit (talk) 14:34, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 

message: "branched off from sharks nearly 400 million years ago and have remained isolated ever since."
What could they do but remind isolated?  Evolutionary branches don't re-converge.  Perhaps this is trying to say that they are the survivors of a larger grouping most of which is now extinct - like the monotremes?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.232.250.50 (talk) 12:30, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odd wording 

message: There should be something about diet, if known. Tony Holkham (Talk) 11:22, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diet
Talk:Juneteenth

message: Not a paid holiday in California 2600:1702:3E40:6680:31A3:886D:A03:E212 (talk) 01:18, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  California 

message: If it’s a pic of Milwaukee then why is the church in the background think it’s in Philly? 32.221.49.133 (talk) 08:20, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: NO that is just its name Philadelphia Church of God. Slatersteven (talk) 08:58, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The header photo needs attention
Category talk:Websites

message: This article really needs some more sub-categories.  More importantly, it needs some guidelines to prevent people from flooding this with every minor website out there, making it impossible to filter out the ones about somebody's cat vs. the ones that actually have "merit".  Oberiko 22:00, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've started sub-categorizing this list, but it's going to take a while to get it all.  Ideally we shouldn't have any websites on this main category page. Oberiko 14:08, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Categorization

message: This category has soooo muh stuff in it, we should move page to more specific categories to make it more usefull. Karol 10:44, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  So large!!!! 

message: URL:                 	
Founded:             	
Founder:             	
Owner:               	
Category:            	
Spoken language:     	
Programming language:	
IMDb                 	IMDb
                     	
URL:                 	http://www.imdb.com/
Founded:             	October 17 1990
Founder:             	Col Needham
Owner:               	Amazon.com
Category:            	Database - Movie
Spoken language:     	English
Programming language:	XHTML
What about the idea to use an infobox to summarize the huge amount of information displayed in some articles. The usage will also probably be a help in categorizing the articles about featured websites. The reason to get started in the english version is because of the more easier adaptation and acceptation in other languages. An example of how it could look like: 
Comments and suggestions are more than welcome. --Yekezzez 15:08, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is "spoken language" the best thing to have there?  Most human language on Web sites is written rather than spoken (unless the site hosts podcasts or other multimedia). *Dan T.* 17:21, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

text: well, this template allready exist since 27 august. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:02, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: Hey, I've just started a cleanup. So far I've tackled the A and B parts. I'll do more after I've had something to eat. Oh, and hopefully this'll shutup anyone who says that anonymous posters are good for nothings :-) --86.139.116.128 19:12, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What exactly do you mean by a cleanup? I'll help out to if anyone wants... *Cremepuff222* 00:40, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Started cleanup 

message: Is there a subcat for websites' date of establishment, or do we just use "Category:2007 establishments"? Badagnani 21:56, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: I created :Category:Websites by topic and cleaned up a couple dozen website subcategories that way. There are probably other good ways to sift through the voluminous subcats. --Lquilter (talk) 19:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: cleanup