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37,675 | `- This is not ``creative``. Those are the dictionary definitions of the terms ``insurance`` and ``ensurance`` as properly applied to ``destruction``. If you don't understand that, fine, legitimate criticism, I'll write up ``three man cell`` and ``bounty hunter`` and then it will be easy to understand why ``ensured`` and ``insured`` are different - and why both differ from ``assured``. The sentence you quote is absolutely neutral. You just aren't familiar with the underlying theory of strike-back (e.g. submarines as employed in nuclear warfare) guiding the insurance, nor likely the three man cell structure that kept the IRA from being broken by the British. If that's my fault, fine, I can fix that to explain. But ther'es nothing ``personal`` or ``creative`` about it. I'm tired of arguing with you. Re: the other article, ``multi-party`` turns up plenty, and there is more use of ``mutually`` than ``mutual``. If I were to apply your standard I'd be moving ``Mutual Assured Destruction`` to ``talk`` for not appealing to a Reagan voter's biases about its effectiveness, and for dropping the ``ly``. There is a double standard in your edits. If it comes from some US history book, like ``peace movement`` or 'M.A.D.' as defined in 1950, you like it, even if the definition is totally useless in 2002 and only of historical interest. If it makes any even-obvious connection or implication from the language chosen in multiple profession-specific terms, you consider it somehow non-neutral... Gandhi thinks ``eye for an eye`` describes riots, death penalty, and war all at once, but you don't. What do you know that Gandhi doesn't? Guess what: reality is not neutral. Current use of terms is slightly more controversial. Neutrality requires negotiation, and some willingness to learn. This is your problem not mine. You may dislike the writing, fine, that can be fixed. But disregarding fundamental axioms of philosphy with names that recur in multiple phrases, or failing to make critical distinctions like 'insurance' versus 'assurance' versus 'ensurance' (which are made in one quote by an Air Force general in an in-context quote), is just a disservice to the reader. If someone comes here to research a topic like MAD, they want some context, beyond history. If this is a history book, fine, it's a history book. But that wasn't what it was claimed to be... ` | 2,002 | false | article | random | train | false |
44,816 | ` :: the term ``standard model`` is itself less NPOV than I think we'd prefer... :: if it's ``new-age speak`` then a lot of old-age people speak it - Karl Popper, the Pope, etc. here's Karl Popper's view of this. :: The clearest title for this article would be ``particle physics cosmology`` - but as I say that would require broader treatment of issues like the Anthropic Principle, cognitive bias beyond the particle physics zoo, etc. :: as to accelerators, it's clear that while they are in use, someone is still looking for particles. So this is not yet a settled ``cosmology`` so certain that we abandon the search... nor is it an arbitrary foundation ontology as you suggest, not subject to question.` | 2,002 | false | article | random | train | false |
49,851 | True or false, the situation as of March 2002 was such: A Saudi proposal of Land for Peace AND recognition by ALL arab countries was made. The day the proposal was to be made formal by the Arab League was the day the Israeli's under the command of Ariel Sharon began the invasion of the Palestinian self-rule areas. user:Arab. | 2,002 | false | article | random | train | false |
89,320 | Next, maybe you could work on being less condescending with your suggestions about reading the naming conventions and FDL, both of which I read quite a while ago, thanks. I really liked the bit where you were explaining why you had no interest in fixing things I complained about because you felt insulted, yet you were being extremely insulting at the time. With any luck, you can learn to be less of a jerk. GregLindahl | 2,002 | true | article | random | dev | false |
93,890 | This page will need disambiguation. | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
102,817 | - Important note for all sysops: There is a bug in the administrative move feature that truncates the moved history and changes the edit times. Please do not use this feature until this bug is fixed. More information can be found in the talk of and . Thank you. | 2,002 | true | user | random | train | false |
103,624 | I removed the following: All names of early Polish rulers are ficticious and therefore this index naming Oda von Haldensleben and her husband Dagome records for the first time rulers of the Polanen tribe. Therefore it is indicated as being the first document of the later developing land named Poland. This is quite a comment. All names are fictitious? It deserves at least some backing. | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
111,032 | `:If you ever claimed in a Judaic studies program that ultra-Orthodox Jews don't have rabbis, or don't have synagogues, you would be laughed out of the room. ::I am beginning to see the problem you have. You see, you do not know how to read what other people say without attaching your personal bias to it. Never once did I say that ultra-Orthodox Jews have no rabbis or synagogues. I DID say that the role of the rabbi and synagogue in ultra-Orthodox Judaism is minimal when compared with, say, Conservative Judaism. They are not clergy, in the traditional Western sense of the word. That is a fact. As for synagogues, they exist, but they are not essential. Minyan (a quorum of ten adult males in ultra-Orthodox law) is essential. You can have a minyan without a synagogue, but a synagogue without a minyan is an empty building. You can laugh all you want, but it doesnt change the facts. It may seem strange to you, but take the statement to anyone who actually knows something. I want to know who laughs then. :If you ever claimed in a recognized Judaica studies program that a significant number of ultra-Orthodox rabbis accept and follow Modern Orthodox responsa (instead of their own), people would look at you as if you had two heads. ::Also a silly point. If you were to draw such sharp distinctions between ultra-Orthodox and Modern Orthodox Judaism in a recognized Judaic Studies program, they would not know what you are talking about. A) That statement is false, because responsa in Orthodoxy does not work on the basis of someone's synagogue affiliation. B) What is a Modern Orthodox responsa versus an ultra-Orthodox responsa? C) In cases where things like hashgacha (kosher certification, etc.) are debated, you will find in most cases that it is not a question of responsa. If you know something about responsa literature in general (which apparently you do not), there are degrees of acceptance. For example, halav yisrael (milk under rabbinical supervision during milking to ensure that it comes from a cow). Most modern-Orthodox Jews do not insist on it t on the basis of a responsa by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein who determined that American government supervision is sufficient. Most ultra-Orthodox Jews do insist on it. They do not reject the responsa. In fact, Moshe Feinstein (Reb Moshe, as he was called) was considered the leading halachic authority for the American ultra-Orthodox community in the past fifty years. They will say that the ruling is right BUT they want to be machmir (more strict on themselves, meaning more pious). It is not a rejection. It is simply being stricter. Ovadya Yoseph said women could wear pants instead of skirts. Would any of his daughters or daughters-in-law be caught dead in pants? No way. They are machmir. :You just can't make this stuff up, Danny. ::I dunno. I seem to be giving answers to everything you say, and my answers are based on sources. I am not making things up. I am simply stating things that (no matter how inconceivable it may be) you do not know. :Stop trying to re-make the ultra-Orthodox in your own image. Its not good history. Frankly, I don't care what is on your resume. It doesn't justify writing such nonsense. RK : Personal attacks. I will say that your intellectual arrogance coupled with your apparent ignorance do not put you in a very good light. In my professional life, I have researched and written extensively on this field, developed relationships both working and personal with many of the people involved, and worked on several important documentary films on the topic. I think I have a sense of what NPOV is, and a statement that the ultra-Orthodox ``hate`` the non-ultra-Orthodox just doesn't make the mark. : Is beating the shit out of non-Orthodox Jews an act of love? Is calling them ``worse than Hitler`` an act of love? Is accusing them of creating the Holocaust an act of tolerance? Danny, you can protest all you like, but you obviously so immersed in an ultra-Orthodox worldview that you can't see the forest for the trees. This is violent hatespeech, and it frightens me to see an educuated person making apologetics for it. RK :: Then it must frighten you even more knowing that I was actually there (and on one occasion, actually hit). Why? Because I do not feel the same antagonism that you do? Because I see some distasteful remarks in a certain context? You say in your diatribe that you want everyone to sit together and sing a Shlomo Carlebach niggun. Just answer me this though? Would Reb Shloime have davened in a shul without a mehitza? Oh, and haredi does not mean ``trembling,`` as you originally wrote at the top of the article. In fact, that was kind of funny. You were apparently confused with the film Trembling Before God, which | 2,002 | true | article | random | dev | false |
120,283 | My apologies I'm English, I watch cricket, I know nothing. Maybe I was thinking of the time he spent in the Army, or maybe I was thinking of Elvis, or something. I'm glad the page got improved. | 2,002 | true | article | random | dev | false |
128,532 | `Someone wrote: More recognizable, perhaps, is a type of what is generally called rock and roll called [folk rock]? or simply ``folk,`` which included performers such as [Joan Baez]?, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, [The Mamas and the Papas]?, and many others. I've tried to clarify this. ``Folk rock`` is used very specifically and is typically far more recognised by instrumentation than form. Many folk musicians of the 60s (Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs etc) sang new, topical material (which distinguished them from traditional folk musicians) but in the folk idiom (acoustic instruments, traditional arrangements and often traditional melodies.) Re: the comment about ``marketers`` in the first paragraph. If language reflects common usage, what is now called ``folk music`` has as much right to the name as any other form. Gareth Owen To the latter: fair enough, but does the first paragraph actually imply otherwise? LMS I like the page in general but wonder if the following is unnecessarily cynical (implying, as it does, a financial rather than artistic incentive to change musical styles): :``Some of these performers, of which Joan Baez is an excellent example, began their commercial music careers performing traditional music in a traditional idiom, but soon transformed their style and accompaniment to suit popular tastes.`` Ya know, I agree, but I don't know how to change it right off. Anyone else want to give it a stab? LMS The deletions are merely of things that seemed redundant. Additions may solve the problem of tone mentioned above. One bit of the original puzzles me, so I corrected the grammar but left it inbut what does ``unrecognizable to its source`` actually mean? I like the new additionslots of good new information here. I added some more. The problem now is that the article is rambling and disorganized, and I am probably not the best person to organize and clarify it. BTW, using the word ``purist,`` without the quotes, makes it sound as if the authors of the article are not purists, which we don't want to imply. -) See neutral point of view. LMS Perhaps someone who knows the facts -) could add in ``Skiffle`` music, from whence the Beatles sprang, which was evidently a British folk form in the 1950's. Certainly the Beatles stole (er, utilised!) many folk forms in their music. ` | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
133,562 | :Correct. Full biographical details will put down his birth details, etc. It is just a marker to me at the moment to detail the WR aspect. He certainly wasn't Belarus; as a geo-political entity it had no real existence at the time. I have put a tbc marker on this article for now. | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
138,117 | ` Care should be taken to distinguish when and if definitions of ``express`` and ``special delivery`` stamps are written that while in many countries the definition is the same in the United States there is a definite difference between ``Express Mail`` and the (now defunct) ``Special Delivery.`` ` | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
155,243 | :If I may butt in I've spent the last 1/4 hour following Andre, and I think he needs reining in. I left him a note at the deletion log, with a stern warning. 13:14 Aug 14, 2002 (PDT) | 2,002 | true | user | random | test | false |
177,310 | On my you will find the apology that I owe you. [ shuffles his feet and looks at the floor] | 2,002 | true | user | random | test | false |
192,579 | ` :<>> :I fail to see the distinction. Who better than legal scholars to define what the law is? Moreover, my comments in re how legal scholars define the law were a response to your dubious assertion that law qua law can be defined as a ``decision process.`` That assertion has no place in the main law article. :<> :I disagree. The enactment of a statute falls under the topic of legislation. :<> :These issues are not law qua law; they are topics which should be discussed under the ambit of particular legal topics, such as ``statutory interpretation`` or ``contracts,`` or related topics, such as ``sociology`` and ``political science.`` :<> :Law qua law is first and foremost a body of knowledge: The academic field to which you refer is the study of that body of knowledge, and should be considered as part and parcel of the discussion found in the main law article; the profession of law is the application of that body of knowledge, which should be discussed in the ``practice of law`` article.` | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
201,190 | gets far more tendentious yet. | 2,002 | true | article | random | dev | false |
208,009 | ` As a person who has done some of this activity, I say we use ``bioprospecting``. That is the word I've always used and heard. ``Bioprospection`` seems a bit pedantic to my ears. ` | 2,002 | true | user | random | train | false |
249,432 | It's great that we've found a new source of free information here, but these articles are obviously written for a turn-of-the-century Christian audienceand are, hence, of course, totally biased. But Wikipedia articles are supposed to be written from the NeutralPointOfView. I'm not sure what to do here, but if I were you, o anonymous uploader, I would stop uploading these articles and start editing the ones you've uploaded so that they are unbiased (or much less biased). LMS | 2,001 | true | article | random | train | false |
252,031 | :No, I really haven't heard of either one, at least not that I recall. I've heard of extreme positions, usually in a dismissive and ironic way, but don't really know their details. They really are on the fringe and not held by the majority of feminists. I've been involved with several feminist groups, usually working on local issues, but I am by no means a feminist scholar. I only have a general knowledge about feminism and especially how it is practice within NOW, of which I am a member. I don't follow the literature, for example. I am truly committed to maintaining a npov, and I hope you are too. I'm not convinced of that, though. Please consider making an attempt to carefully state that the beliefs of certain subgroups of feminism are not necessarily beliefs feminists as a whole agree on. Readers will make their own judgement about which beliefs they buy and which they don't. It isn't up to us to steer them one way or another. And have a Happy Holiday! Dmerrill | 2,001 | true | article | random | train | false |
268,558 | I'd like the concepts of microevolution and macroevolution better related to the debate over evolution. Moreover, I think they are best used as terms that define the debate, rather than concepts in themselves to be disputed. The theory of evolution, if it is indeed scientifically sound (and almost no one here doubts that), should be able to stand on its own merits without you all feeling you must defend it at every point. The various articles which present alternatives to evolution, however outlandish or zany they seem to you scienntists, require merely a link or two each to the accepted science. Ed Poor | 2,001 | true | article | random | train | false |
276,906 | I agree, the first one is simply wrong, and the other two are already covered. And I also agree that we have to start getting serious about the math. forumulation -) AxelBoldt | 2,001 | true | article | random | train | false |
286,174 | Yep, that's Twin cities from which this article originated. | 2,002 | true | article | random | test | false |
290,598 | ` That's another relevant empirical question: if there really are millions of people who would be horribly offended by ``Christian mythology``, then perhaps it's justifiable to avoid the term even if it's otherwise a good term. But if it's just a few oversensitive ninnies, and most reasonable people can come to accept the non-pejoritive use of the term if it's explained, then I see no reason to avoid it. I rather like ``Scientific mythology`` personally, and wish it were restored. LDC ` | 2,001 | true | article | random | dev | false |
294,124 | : This sounds right. Historians speak of these people at these times as Jews practiving Judaism. The rabbinic/pharisaic Judaism that was canonized in the Mishna (about 200 CE) is a compilation of teachings from about 200 years before the time of Jesus to about 150 years after. RK | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
297,866 | Ummm. The article uses imperial measurements, not SI ones. Some translation is apparently in order. -) Anders Törlind | 2,001 | true | article | random | train | false |
317,177 | See? I was right! ;-) | 2,002 | true | article | random | test | false |
336,654 | :I have checked the licenses, and it is public domain without restrictions. See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html | 2,002 | true | user | random | dev | false |
344,567 | ` Changed Macedonia link to Macedon; ancients didn't call their land Macedonia, and the entry we have on ``Macedonia`` isn't useful for Alexander. Should probably have an article on Macedon, and take the one sentence about Alexander out of Macedonia, maybe with a ``see also.`` I don't particularly have a problem with Macedon/Macedonia, but don't the naming conventions suggest that articles be named based on their most popular usage, rather than their most correct usage (if there's a difference)? Perhaps using Macedonia to refer to recent history and Macedon for ancient history would work (with ``see also`` back and forth)? Blain My native language is Greek and I can assure you that Macedon and Macedonia is the same thing. Macedonia is the ``modern`` way to say Macedon. Maybe you should change back the link to Macedonia from Macedon. If the article about Macedonia is not informative enough you could always change it. Just a note about the relationship between Aristotle and Alexander. Those two were two different personalities and they used to clash a lot but Alexander did something that makes me wanter if their relationship was as bad as people think today. While he was invading Asia he would send to his teacher all new and interesting animals that he would incounter in his expedition because he knew that old Aristotle was almost obsessed with the classification of things. The result was that Aristotle formed a kind of a zoo back in Macedonia from the gifts of his student. Now, if young Alexander was so sick of his teacher why did he bother? Good point. I think Alexander was complicated enough that trying to determine who he liked and who he didn't (and which was safer) isn't all that easy. He was known to treat his enemies rather well and to kill his friends when they ticked him off. I think he might have respected Aristotle and just not wanted to spend time around him anymore. Just a thought Blain The most recent edits to this article are very strange. Why change Egypt to ``Pgypt``?? Why delete the paragraphs that were deleted? Can someone give me a reality check on this? ` | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
356,383 | ` :Incidentally, re naming conventions: the only convention I know of that would be relevent here is Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), which states ``Use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things.``` | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
358,984 | `I removed ``from scratch``. In addition to your reasons, it just looks better without it. 02:04 Oct 14, 2002 (UTC) ` | 2,002 | true | article | random | dev | false |
360,594 | ::I disagree. I would leave it out of the introductory part, since its population (which changes every census) is not nearly as fundamental as the fact that it is in a particular state, its county seat is whatever it is, andstuff like that. Also, if Wikipedia survives till 2010, someone will have to be careful to change it in both places! BRG | 2,002 | false | user | blocked | train | false |
375,422 | ` :::: You're onto something important, there. Even the liturgical renewal movement seems to have aesthetics and drama at the center of why traditional forms need to be recovered. From bible-belt Passion plays to [ Hell House ], there is a definite tie-in with theater in modern ideas of ``church``. I've visited evangelical churches that have nothing recognizably churchy about them - pure entertainment (movies, football games, mime, concerts, just about anything but rites or sermons) - and it's quite intentional; and I've heard that similar things are happening in trendy Roman catholic churches although I have no experience with that. Personally, it's repugnant. But, it is fact that this is happening and, it's not a fringe phenomenon. ` | 2,002 | true | article | random | dev | false |
376,205 | `I posted this to because the timeline confused me too. Hey, I tried to clean up the timeline at Vote so it was easier to read and realized I don't know what it's a timeline of. What does it mean when you include the qualifier ``to stand for elections?`` Does that mean in addition to the right to vote? What if the qualifier says ``right to vote``? Also, what is your source? Myanmar was called Burma in 1935, and the FYR of Macedonia did not exist in 1946. I'm pretty sure Croatia, Uzbekistan, Krygyrztan and Kazakhstan did not exist at the time they're on your list as well. What are you referring to? The US is on in 1920, so you're obviously not referring to universal suffrage. You need to explain exactly what this list is talking about, because I had assumed it was universal suffrage. A timeline of the development of voting would be interesting (though it should probably be a separate article), but it needs to be clear at which stages the right was granted to which people (based on sex, race, age, criminal history, political status, etc). 19:26 Oct 21, 2002 (UTC) ` | 2,002 | true | article | random | dev | false |
377,054 | :::I don't know where you got the idea that Mt. Airy's in 4 counties. It's only in two. Were you the one, Tokerboy, who added two counties to the two I'd listed when I put it into the Frederick County article? BRG 10/22 | 2,002 | false | user | blocked | train | false |
386,473 | ` Thanks for fixing the spelling error in ``propaganda``. I can't believe I did that. ` | 2,002 | true | user | random | test | false |
388,807 | Ezra, you have got to be kidding with this page. You are taking one of many interpretations of Judaism and giving it sole legitimacy, often with simple rhetorical claims. Even within Orthodox circles many of the views you express are controversial at best (and often considered shtus). Please fix it up or I will do it myself, and I do know my stuff. | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
398,923 | ` ::::: There's nothing particularly objectionable about this to me - however, how ``rough`` is the equivalence? It seems to me that even on a Septuagint-centric view of the Old Testament, it matters that one believes the Septuagint is the Old Testament of Christianity when there is a difference on some point (and only then IMO). In those cases, it can be pointed out as emphatically as one would like, that ``the Old Testament of Jesus and of the Apostles, was the Greek Septuagint; and the reason that matters in this case is because the Septuagint was translated to say yada-yada, whereas the Hebrew version is more ambiguous.`` ` | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
421,948 | ` ::: Pointing out which word is used less than others seems unnecessary. It's not a competition. Each should be a stand alone article, each should be linked to and from the ``discrediting tactic`` article, and each should have basically the exact same wording (if they exist at all). :::Besides, it would be hard to prove which one is used less. People that hate Bush will hear ``Bushism`` more, people that hate Gore will hear ``goreism`` more. If we surveyed the Wikipedia family, I think we'd hear from our fair share of both groups. -jazz77` | 2,002 | false | article | random | test | false |
460,946 | :::Yet more: Follow the whole thread if you like. mav | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
462,765 | :Re: your question about Nieuwpoort. You are right that 'Nieuwpoort' could be translated as 'Newport'. However, I have never seen the city translated as such in English. Some Belgian cities are translated in other languages, others not. I suspect Nieuwpoort is not, and therefore needs not to be disambiguated (but I'm not 100% sure). 19:14 Dec 4, 2002 (UTC) | 2,002 | true | user | random | dev | false |
537,948 | Hi Alex Just thought I ought to mention that not ALL self-links are unwanted - you removed one in List of musical topics that was wanted and its presence was requested on the Talk page. I think there are a few in maths topics which make this clear - something to do with keeping an eye on updates? It's not clear to me how this whole issue works (in fact I thought I'd raise it in the village pump) some time, but thought I should mention it to you anway. Regards 11:33 Dec 26, 2002 (UTC) | 2,002 | true | user | random | train | false |
546,902 | Early Imperial, Mid-Imperial and Late Imperial China periodization is a way of periodization but not the only way. Supporters of Chinese Marxist interpretations might not agree with that. It's better to put under Periodization of Chinese_historiography so the History of China article will be as NPOV as possible. kt2 | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
554,005 | The references to the Congolese economy seem to be throwing you off. This should not be so. As I’ve said earlier, referring to Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State without referring to surplus value, labor as a commodity and mass-production is like detailing the Holocaust without discussing anti-Semitism. | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
569,192 | ` I cut the following paragraph, which misleads people about biology: :A few points are worth clarifying about ``nature`` and ``nurture``. First, ``nature`` does not reduce to anything as simple as ``present at birth``. Height is thought to depend very extensively on genetics, for example, but one is not born adult-sized; one must slowly grow up. The problem is clear in the example: height certainly does manifest itself over time as one ages. But insofar as height has a ``natural`` component, it is' present at birth in the genome. It is just that whatever genes code for height do not manifest themselves immediately. But they are there at birth. The real problem with using height as an example of something that is ``nature`` but not immediately manifest at birth is that height is of course determined by ``nature`` and'' ``nurture,`` or, if you prefer, genes and environment. this is the whole point of Boas's important studies on height; height is clearly highly heritable, but children of immigrants to the US had much higher average adult heights than their parents, presumably because of better nutrition in the US. I believe nature is best understood as things that are indeed innate (present at birth) as long as we recognize that things that are present at birth genetically may manifest themselves over time. How else are we to distinguish a physical feature like height (that heritable part of it) from physical features like scars which appear later in life and do mark the body noticably, but which are clearly not ``natural?`` ` | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
583,986 | Dear Mav: Thanks, bro! God bless you! Sincerely yours, * | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
586,452 | On Google Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie gets more hits than Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie which is correct? | 2,002 | true | article | random | train | false |
593,977 | ` That's true. I removed similar passages, which seem to me quite useless, from several other pages at around the same time. Some of those pages had formulaic intro texts that was was definitely biased: ``Please note that these people have been selected for this list because their notoriety was in some way due or connected to their Rastafarianism.`` I simply assumed this page did too. I still think what I deleted should go. Do you think it should stay? ` | 2,003 | true | article | random | test | false |
600,918 | ` :Yes, thanks! I have implemented something similar on the test wiki just yet (instead of the ``enhanced recent changes``). Looks good, but the roll/unroll button doesn't work, partly because of bad Mozilla rendering (see ), partly because of my lousy JavaScript ;-) :If you know how to fix it, go ahead! 20:12 Jan 16, 2003 (UTC)` | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
622,095 | `This page is ridiculous. The author throws in the words ``or other object``, and that should be most of the article. Aircraft should perhaps be mentioned at most in a footnote if at all. Mike Hardy` | 2,003 | true | article | random | test | false |
633,526 | ```2000's: The Jewish blood-libel myth continues to circulate among many Muslim countries.`` - this is the only stuff relevant to present day, though there's lots of historical blood libel content which makes it a good source on the history` | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
661,509 | MarcusAurelius]] Why exactly was this user banned? | 2,003 | false | user | blocked | train | false |
680,470 | There is no such thing as Christian religiocentrism. Come off it. Please stop making up words and writing articles on subjects which don't exist. Christians are not even an ethnic group! If you want to write an article on pro-Christian bias, or pro-Christian theology, or pro-Christian antyhing, then come up with a specific idea, a title based on fact, and start writing content that refers to and relies on scholarship. | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
694,840 | ` :Click on my ``Annoying Users`` link! I guess Massachusetts is a republic, then? Defending facts against the lies of determined zealots seems to be a particular sticking-place for Wikipedia ( 02:58 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)` | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
700,512 | ` ¿Why do some people want to remove all facts about normal anatamy and function of the præpuce from the Encyclopædia? ¿Why do people divide præpuce, clitoral hood, foreskin, prepuce, and praepuce into seperate articles when all of these words are just synomyms for the same thing? We need not fear the truth: ``And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free..`` (John 8:32) If anyone wishes to write, this is my email-address: ``?alabio`` 07:28 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)` | 2,003 | true | article | random | dev | false |
707,010 | The link to SGC Belfry Ted Nude-Gent is dead. Could someone update it to something relevant, perhaps an article on the subject? | 2,003 | false | article | blocked | train | false |
709,074 | Really, is it WIntel, this is, W(indows) + INTEL ?? | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
724,915 | `Where's the 24 defendants figure coming from? ``Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy`` by Telford Taylor (U.S. Chief Counsel at Nuremberg) mentions 200. ` | 2,003 | false | article | blocked | train | false |
749,616 | ` Am glad you have asserted we are all equal. That is the fundamental operationial requirement to be an open website where no ``community`` can exist to oblige others to do things their way. Also, I hate to break your heart, but 'no one has done a thing on listing the communes of France for quite some time. I did about 8-12 in the last day or so. Are you or others going to finish? Should I stop? .` | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
783,899 | Is it Gauss or Gauß? I still don't know, can someone with deep knowledge of German spellings please step in? | 2,003 | true | article | random | dev | false |
784,353 | I just save an awful lot -). - fonzy | 2,003 | true | user | random | dev | false |
801,279 | Iraq is not good === === USA is bad | 2,003 | false | article | random | train | true |
804,607 | Perhaps it was possible to have dual citizenship, or as you said, maybe he switched back and forth multiple times. But he certainly did serve as directory of Physics Institute at the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Sciences from 1914 to 1933. If he had no alligiance to Germany all that time, indeed it would seem odd (perhaps even unethical) to accept such a high ranking position for nearly 20 years, and enjoy all the benefits. He certainly developed the bulk of his scientific achievements there. 03:58 Apr 5, 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
808,184 | I moved this one off the page: :A common misconception is that affirmative action is automatically synomous with benefits for minorities. However, majority groups have been afforded affirmative-action advantages, such as for the Fijians in Fiji, and the Malays in Malaysia. That seems counter to the very definition of affirmative action. By this criterion, the anti-Jewish laws in early Nazi Germany were affirmative action, as were the Catholic penal laws in England in the 18th century? | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
810,614 | ` :Excuse me, what ``name`` did I call you? ` | 2,003 | true | user | random | dev | false |
811,924 | ::Hmmmnnn... I'm not entirely sure about that definition in the Webopedia. I haven't got any Computer Science reference material to hand but I've certainly seen, for example, plenty of computer hardware manufacturers advertising XXGb hard drives and meaning Gigabyte. However, I can live with it - I'd better change the abbreviation I use in the DVD article which led me here. 15:54 Apr 8, 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | article | random | dev | false |
823,763 | 20:52 Apr 12, 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | article | random | dev | false |
833,825 | Oh the joy of nutters! Anyway, I see the Rachel Corrie photomontage shrine is back. -( | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
840,118 | ` ``The WTC Towers were constructed almost entirely from steel coated in asbestos, and the attacks released dense clouds of dust into the air of Manhattan. Death usually follows asbestos inhalation only after fifteen years or more - so is possible that other victims of the attacks may die over the decades to come.`` I remember either the TV or newspaper specifically saying at the time that the WTC towers didn't contain asbestos, which account is incorrect?` | 2,003 | false | article | random | train | false |
849,920 | Wow! Quite long dispute. I know from specialist that former Iraqi president full name was Saddam Hussein at-Tikriti. (simplifying to western people first name, second name and surname). In mid-70's he resigned from at-Tikriti because many people used this name to help their careers (they called themselves at-Tikriti) and made call him just Saddam Hussein. This specialist (arabist from Poland) told that it is right to call former Iraqi president just Saddam because this is his name, Hussein and at-Tikriti are to help not to confuse him with other Saddam's. 15:54 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
907,749 | Hi Mav, could you please look at the Irish Houses of Parliament. I put images to accompany my text on there. I know they are probably too big (I don't yet have the ability to shrink images yet -( ) but cropping them would cut off important bits of the image. Everyone seems very happy with the contents and images, but some browsers and screens may have problems due to their size. I trust you completely, having seen the standard of your work and would welcome any help you could give to make the images more screen-friendly. PS I hope no damage was done with that electrical storm. lol 22:59 May 10, 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
916,927 | Thanks for the response. I thought that it would be along the lines of your interests because we often work on similar scopes of articles. I wish that it were because you always contribute to scholarly articles, especially ones with a socio-economic and socio-political dimension lacking in so many others, like Industrial Revolution in its present form. I'd be really happy to see you do a little on accumulation, and I'd be very happy to integrate it with the rest of the text as well. That's exactly what the article needed anyway, namely an analysis of economic processes. | 2,003 | true | user | random | test | false |
920,274 | : You're probably right about the modern Greek dictionary. I would extend the period under consideration to between the second century BC to the second century CE, so as to include usage at the time when the Septuagint was translated. But realistically speaking, it probably makes no difference at all to the usage of parthenos, or if it does matter a hair either way the references we have won't be that specific. | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
923,974 | :Given that she's one of the triumvirate of Imperial Governors-General of the Conquered Territories, that shouldn't be hard.... 16:49 May 15, 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | user | random | test | false |
943,685 | :I like a good mystery! I think I've localized this (Lavia -> Latvia helped), and cleaned up a bit of language, though I have as yet no verification that either the estate or the stone exists. 20:00 20 May 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
945,573 | Oops. I'd never even noticed the move page link before. No, I'm not an admin. Only been here a month. It seems longer. -) Anyway, I'll bear it in mind next time, but I'll let you decide if it's worth doing what you suggest in this instance. 08:57 21 May 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
946,822 | :I am not sure what you mean. Are you saying overpopulation is not an issue of housing or transporation? 15:53 21 May 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | article | random | dev | false |
966,578 | ` :You wrote: ``South Jersey... isn't that anything below Newark?. ...``... Now that's one I haven't heard yet. My external site has a page devoted to this particular question. I didn't take the northern extreme as far as Newark, but I did take the southern that way, because on the western of the two bridges that go over the Cape May Canal there is a sign in the dead center of the southbound side which shows a dividing line: the word ``Jersey`` in the middle, the word ``South on the left side and the word ``North`` on the right. Very cute. That makes South Jersey about 12 square miles. 00:21 25 May 2003 (UTC)` | 2,003 | true | user | random | test | false |
967,899 | I think this page should include a reference to the important free Go-playing program GNU Go. In the absence of Wikipedia pages describing Go++, Many Faces of Go and GNU Go, why not provide external links to pages describing these programs? | 2,003 | false | article | blocked | train | false |
968,361 | How is one to fix the problem with the Schopenhauer nested link? | 2,003 | true | article | random | test | false |
977,682 | ::I just had a phone conversation with Steve Ignorant and asked him if it's true that Pete Wright was ever with Trapeze in 1976 before Crass in 1977. He said 'yes' it's true that Pete Wright worked with Trapeze in 1976. | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
996,869 | Well, it looks like manga for me, has those big eyes ), is black-and-white, takes place in Japan and google (http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Comics/Manga/Independent/Online_Manga/) also thinks it's a manga. Taw | 2,002 | true | article | random | dev | false |
999,587 | ` Corrected a couple of things: Social welfare policies most certainly don't ``mostly date to the 1980s``. It's difficult to tie them to any perticular decade. There is not ``broad bipartisan support`` for the US alliance. There is broad support, yes, but also a long tradition of opposition. And the UK ties go back further and are still, perhaps, deeper. Then there is the trend to see Australia as part of Asia. And so on. This stuff should go back in, but suitably modified to reflect the actual mix of support - a task I don't feel like taking on tonight. Anyone game? ` | 2,003 | true | article | random | test | false |
1,028,038 | ` Heller is a good source. Concerning the ``Irgun`` versus ``Lehi`` question you raise, the confusion is resolved thus: when Stern broke away from the ``Irgun Zvai Leumi`` (National Military Organization) he named his new organization ````Irgun Zvai Leumi be-Yisrael`` (National Military Organization in Israel). This is the ``Irgun`` in his letter. It was only after Stern's death that the name ``Lohamei Herut Yisrael`` (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) was adopted.` | 2,003 | false | article | random | test | false |
1,062,754 | ===Deletion of a phrase === Last week, a one-time Anon, 218.170.11.195 commented on the difference between the old and new census on the number of Taiwanese of Chinese ancestry: : The disparity in the numbers may be due to racism, the understanding in Han families that children belong to the man and the need by later governments to forge greater ethnic ties to China. [emphasis added] How does patriarchy play a role? Is it implying that Han fathers married aborginal women, whose children they had were claimed by the father and deemed by society to be father's only? This reason is not obvious and whose validity I cannot prove. It requires some elaborate explanations, but then, if so, it'd not fit in the basic intro of Taiwan. Perhaps in better fitted in Census of Taiwan or Demographics of Taiwan. And it requires serious rephrase. 22:20 17 Jun 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | article | random | train | false |
1,064,649 | :His tone is interesting; I don't ever recall Jimbo ever giving him the authority to speak for Wikipedia. mav | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
1,078,251 | ` Another thought - is describing the word as a ``neologism`` superfluous, perhaps? I've always been an advocate of approaching writing a Wikipedia article as if everything you're writing about happened a thousand years ago and is ancient history, because it seems to me that's the proper style for an encyclopaedia, which is intended to be timeless and authoritative. ``Neologism`` is an inescapably relative word - *all* words are neologisms looked at from one perspective in time, soon after they are invented. (All the words Shakespeare invented would be neologisms if you lived in 1630, for instance). I sincerely hope this page will be around in some form in another hundred years, at which point homophobia will no longer be a neologism. I think it's probably sufficient simply to say when and by whom the term was coined. Comments? ` | 2,003 | true | article | random | test | false |
1,078,839 | ` The problem with this page, IMHO, is that it doesn't deal with INDIGENOUS people at all, but rather (for lack of a better word) PRIMITIVE people. As has been pointed out, there are many groups of people which are indigenous (whatever that means) to the areas in which they live but are not indigenous people in the sense the article is written (e.g. most of the inhabitants of the Old World!). I don't care how PC or relativist you are, there clearly is a difference between those cultures and societies which embrace and accept change from the outside and have joined the ``global mainstream``, and those which have not. As for those so-called ``indigenous people`` who have adopted modern ways, I'd make the argument that they're simply then no longer indigenous peoples (in the sense this article and the US uses the term, as misleading as it is). 05:52 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)` | 2,003 | true | article | random | dev | false |
1,084,843 | Hi JT - just so you know, your bestest friend left a little love letter for you here (rather abusive it was) - I've reverted it, but thought I'd mention its (temporary) existence. Cheers | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
1,100,463 | `Some inconsistencies in usage here. Please indicate if this is wrong: *sira is the life of Muhammad, during which the revelation (Qur'an) was dictated, and during which he spoke the authentic hadith *sunnah consists of both hadith and sira (example) *hadith are validated by isnah, ``backing``, a science of its own *hadith are extremely significant as social rules and moral guidance If this is all so, why aren't there separate links in this article to sira and sunnah, and why doesn't this article list some undisputed hadith? The article on isnah already describes the process, and on early Muslim philosophy already describes the significance of this in the Islamic culture of scholarship. So, this article should be only about the actual hadith, while a sunnah article can be about the use of the sira and hadith in practice today and in history...? It wouldn't matter much except there are some redundancies here with isnah.` | 2,003 | false | article | random | train | false |
1,106,855 | `theories about how life on Earth may regulate the planet's biosphere to make it more hospitable to life. This discusses all scientific views on the subject in general, including the views of Drs. James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, etc. Gaia hypothesis- A subset of the above article; this is a discussion of Dr. James Lovelock's ideas on Gaia theory. Gaia theory analogs - A discussion of proto-scientific, mystical and religious views that some people believe are related to Gaia theory. Gaians - A discussion of the small left-wing radical political and environmentalist group. (Of course, other articles could be made as well, if needed.) We must not push mystical, political or religious ideology into our science articles on Gaia theory, Biological evolution, or Quantum Mechanics, etc. All I am asking is that we continue to follow the same disambiguation and NPOV policy that we also have followed. Is this clear? 22:47 2 Jul 2003 (UTC) 2 quick points. 1) I think everybody here is missing a common scientific manner of using ``Gaia theory``. I believe many use it like ``game theory.`` As in, they don't always talk about ``a game theory`` or ``the game theory.`` 2) Separate articles is not the only precedent on Wikipedia. See neutral theory of molecular evolution. I believe practically one of the first things to say about this scientific theory is that a whole lot of non-scientists took it as a direct challenge to Darwin, even though it appears that it's authors did not mean it to be. I put it in the first paragraph. 00:11 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)` | 2,003 | true | article | random | test | false |
1,111,314 | ` Hi Ant, I was just wondering why you did not put anything at all on your ``Homepage``. Sometimes it is nice to know who you are talking to, but the first line I saw on your page was the ``ban``-line... I look forward to learn something about you, your articles and comments gave me a good impression. Greetings from Munich, 12:56 3 Jul 2003 (UTC) PS: I think, if you sign with three ``~`` instead of ``Ant`` it is easyer to understand who wrote the comment.` | 2,003 | true | user | random | train | false |
1,126,594 | `Great start . I'm a ``newbie`` (a.k.a.: F.N.G.) to Wikipedia, so bear with me. I'd be glad to communicate with you on this article/subject. Here's why I've deleted/replaced a couple of your phrases/sentences: ``...figurative language uses more poetic senses.`` Although it's used a lot in poetry, figurative language is used in a lot more contexts than just poetry. When I shake my fist at someone on the freeway and call them an ``a__hole,`` I'm using figurative language (the figure of speech is synecdoche) without being poetic in any sense of the word. ``In literal language, truth conditions work out well, while in figurative language, they may not.`` IMO the definition of terms in this sentence will be unclear to most general readers of an encyclopedia. What are ``truth conditions``? If it's a technical term, we'd better define it. Also, I moved the following to this page - == To add == * Why would someone want to divide language into literal and figurative? What is gained thereby? (Lakoff provides some insight here.) * Why would people prefer not to view language with this divide? * How does this connect to theories of truth?`` - These are all needed additions. The last one, especially, shows the importance and relevance of this subject to a broad range of disciplines, including theories of knowledge, cognition, language development, etc., etc. And now....here's an explanations for one of my suspect assertions -) ``Some have boiled down the more than two hundred and fifty figures described in classical and traditional linguistics into two: metaphor and metonymy.`` I know this from research, and my additions to Further Reading document reflect the ``classical and traditional`` end of this statement. But I need to go back and document which modern analyses have done the boiling specifically. Tuesday, July 8, 2003, 12:45 CDT.` | 2,003 | true | article | random | dev | false |
1,133,583 | ` Please note that your comment that ``What you are saying is that YOU have never heard of Exeter. This is your problem. Perhaps you should read [1] and enlighten yourself. Whatever, my point remains that the word Exeter is most associated with Exeter in Britain, and this is the convention.`` is more insulting than my characterizing a tiny place of 100,000 as a ``jerkwater town.`` which it is! I know more about British geography than 99% of Americans - I remember in an online chat with some guy from Sheffield that he was surprised that I knew Sheffield was a city, as I was the first American he'd spoken to who had even heard of it. I think _you_ should enlighten yourself. You referred to a Google search that found most of the links to the name Exeter referring to the city in the UK. What proportion of those were from sites in the UK? If you can find even _one_ site anywhere that is put up by someone outside the UK that uses ``Exeter`` unqualified to refer to the one in England, and does not preface that with some reference to England, Britain, or the UK (to make it clear that he's talking about UK places!) I would like to see it! July 10, 2003` | 2,003 | false | user | blocked | train | false |
1,140,231 | `The map availability theory is an interesting one, and worth considering. This whole thing dates to the early days of the ramblers, and the recreational interest in the landscape (as opposed to those too busy trying to live in it) On finding ley-lines, it took me a while to hunt it down, but this is a passage I remembered from John Crowley's excellent novel Ægypt: Star temples and ley-lines, UFOs and landscape giants, couldn't they see what was really, permanently astonishing was the human ability to keep finding these things? Let anyone looking for them be given a map of Pennsylvania or New Jersey or the Faraways, and he will find ``ley-lines``; let human beings look up long enough on starry nights and they will see faces staring down at them. That's the interesting thing, that's the subject: not why there are ley-lines, but why people find them... Actually I think the point of the statistical argument was that proponents quote extremely low probabilities that the alignments that they find could have arisen by chance: but out of the set of all possible alignments selected from (semi-)random points, there will be a number (perhaps a majority) of low probability ones.. ``Million to one chances turn up nine times out of ten``. 00:07 12 Jul 2003 (UTC) ` | 2,003 | true | article | random | dev | false |
1,173,977 | ` Sorry, but I'm not sure where you mean by ``at the tertiary bigtop`` (above, below?) so here are my comments. You asked: ``Is 3kg really so bad?`` I'm not sure which article you are referring to, but I presume you are questioning why I put a space in between the number and the kilogram symbol. I guess my question back is, what do you mean by ``really so bad``? Is it so bad that it is a major problem, seriously degrading the quality of the article? Probably not. Is it against accepted style, potentially harder to read, and very easy to fix? Yes. It can be much easier to read if there is a space there (which is why that is the accepted style). This can be very important if someone gives a number of liters and they use the lower case L, since it looks like a 1. 06:41 20 Jul 2003 (UTC) ` | 2,003 | true | user | random | dev | false |
1,185,345 | ::Thanks. While I'm attemtping (without any training) to apply psychiatric diagnoses to a fictional robot I've pointed out that he's not (strictly speaking) paranoid. | 2,003 | true | article | random | test | false |
1,212,997 | Hi Sannse, I answered you question on the talk:Whippet page, sorry for forgetting to add the OK -) 19:53 27 Jul 2003 (UTC) | 2,003 | true | user | random | dev | false |
1,220,372 | Wikipedia is banned? Why? | 2,003 | true | article | random | test | false |
1,221,055 | ` ::I've been considering the proposed version, which is far more consideration than anyone ever gave to my better-written draft. I'm willing to consider it as a basis for revision, if only will actually enter into collaborative exchange rather than automatically rejecting all but ``minor edits`` and asking - yet again - that people be ``stopped`` from contributing substantive improvements. ` | 2,003 | true | article | random | test | false |
1,226,695 | Do you think European Union should have the form of the Wikipedia project countries? | 2,003 | false | user | random | dev | false |