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Wilderness Diarrhea Getting Killed
Pradiptaray:

Am contacting you due to your interest in naturalism and the outdoors. (have opened page on Satyajit Ray from your page; gotta learn about that guy).

 * Dunno, but it seems remotely possible you'd be interested in this. Wilderness Diarrhea is getting merged into Travelers Diarrhea by a couple of zealots who seem to have no concept of outdoor interests.

I get around a lot in the outdoors and rarely treat water, but WD article had some good stuff.

 * After a couple of weeks of calm discussion, I went ballistic and no longer want to participate. Rational voices might help.

These guys have irrationally convinced themselves that WD isn't a legitimate topic for a Wikipedia article.

 * I've pointed out several bomb-proof arguements to no avail. I'd say the strongest is the vast number of published articles that discuss WD as a separate concern from TD. They are both environmental health topics, and obviously the context of each are far different.

Calamitybrook (talk) 16:35, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * They simply ignore all this.

---::Thanks Ray

Question; many years ago I saw a film (on television) and there was a scene of a young boy watching a puppet that had like, christmas lightbulbs for eyes -- something very magical but not technically very sophisticated in terms of special effects. Does this ring a bell as far as sayajit ray?

 * Also, I saw a film at Lincoln Center (walter reede auditorium) that was done around the late 1940s and emphasized pseudo-classical Indian dance. In the film, its main character was supposed to be touring India to raise money for a national arts center by providing these performances. He would give these little lectures about Indian nationalism and non-sectarianism. I enjoyed it very much but this afternoon haven't been able to find what it's called.Calamitybrook (talk) 18:34, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Indian Cinema

 * Now I've got a bug about it and spent a half hour trying to look it up with no luck. Lotsa stuff out there. Yeah... it was sorta Bollywood, but had lots of propaganda about nationalism and the new nation etc...Maybe the music and dance was a bit more highbrow than the average Bollywood film too, but I'm not certain about that..Oh well....
 * At the moment am staying at Michigan State U., and will see if they have that Ray trilogy....

Calamitybrook (talk) 04:57, 26 September 2008 (UTC) Calamitybrook (talk) 04:57, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

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Hello, User:Pradiptaray. I have noticed from your user page that you are a fan of or have an interest in The Smurfs series. There is currently a discussion concerning the merging of all individual articles on Smurf video games into one bigger article. I do not believe that any of the editors involved in the discussion (myself included) know much about the games and I was hoping you could provide us with the benefit of your opinion as an editor knowledgeable about the subject. If you are not interested in helping or if you believe yourself incapable at this time then please disregard this message. The discussion is currently under way here. Thanks for your time. -Thibbs (talk) 21:42, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Protected areas title changes

 * As the creator and editor of some of the many Protected areas articles that have been recently renamed by User:Neelix you may be interested in the discussion at Talk:Protected_areas_in_Tamil_Nadu.--Marcus (talk) 00:18, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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Kathryn White
Hello Pradiptaray

A couple of years back you kindly created a stub for me for my wife, Kathyrn White, who is a successful children's author here in England. I was very grateful for your help because I had tried and failed to create a page myself.

Yesterday I discovered that the page had been deleted.

After some research I found that a user User:Alexf had deleted the page last year without our knowing it.

Alexf claims to have done so because Kathryn was not notable enough. Can users have such power these days on Wikipedia to make such uninformed decisions?

I have looked at the guidelines for notability which state (in relation to authors) -

"Authors What authors get their own articles? Probably almost all non-self-published authors, per bio guidelines that specify Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more"

Kathryn seems easlily to fulfil these guidelines, with over 20 titles published here in the UK, one of which, Here Comes the Crocodie, I belive sold in excess of 25,000 copies.

Could you possibly advise me on how I can get this page restored?

I would be once again in your debt.

With best regards

Pap.deblanc (talk) 13:47, 12 June 2009 (UTC)pap.deblanc

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Seven Wise Dwarfs
Hi,

You created the page for that Disney short 3 years ago. (Thanks.)

You have a pair of directors listed, Lyford & Beebe.

Do you remember what your source was for that information?

Thanks, Varlaam (talk) 17:06, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christians in the Arabian/Persian Gulf

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The result of the debate was KEEP. — J I P | Talk 16:31, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Christians in the Arabian/Persian Gulf
Sorry, but the lemma is plain silly. And I don't thing renaming would do, as we already have Assyrian Church of the East. --Pjacobi 18:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

So, is your problem with the Lemma? How else would you suggst we deal with a problematic geographical name? Insofar as I am in the process of writing the article, I assure you the scholarship behind it is solid. --RLMullen

 * I started to look because of the lemma. And I consider the "in the [..] gulf" inapprobiate. But the question of the lemma is tertiary.
 * Perhaps we can shortcut the process, if you just explain, why this shouldn't go into Assyrian Church of the East?
 * Pjacobi 19:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Because the Assyrian Orthodox Church is a denomination.  Pilatus 20:58, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, but the article in question is about its early history, Armenian Apostolic Church

The article is about Christianity in a region, so I'd prefer not to bury it under "Assyrian Church of the East", which, as Pilatus says, is a denomination. Maybe rename it "Christianity in the Arabian/Persian Gulf Region" or "Christianity around the Arabian/Persian Gulf" RLMullen

 * Keep, this information might be buried somewhere in Assyrian Church of the East but someone looking for it should be able to go straight to this page. Possibly rename to Christians in the Gulf region and we will guess which gulf. Kappa 20:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Note: We also already have Christians in Iran (and, but a miserable stub only, Early Christianity) --Pjacobi 21:19, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. Burying this information into Assyrian Church of the East is absurd for a number of reasons. The Assyrian Church of the East is not the only jursidiction in the Arabian/Persian Gulf as previous indicated. Secondly, there are other non-traditional Christian groups (mostly Protestants) in some areas of the Persian Gulf which should eventually find their way into the article.--Nicodemus75 23:08, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Nicodemus75 KillerChihuahua 00:39, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep — Gareth Hughes 02:17, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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Nova Scotia Highway 125

Highway 125 is a 28 km long controlled-access highway located in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. The provincial government named it Peacekeepers Way on August 18, 2008. Part of the provincial 100-series arterial highway network, Highway 125 encircles the west side of Sydney Harbour, from an interchange with Highway 105 (the Trans-Canada Highway) at Sydney Mines to Trunk 4 (Grand Lake Road) immediately east of Sydney.

Route description
The northern third of the highway was upgraded during the late 1990s and early 2000s from a two-lane freeway to a twinned 4-lane freeway. Particularly problematic was the fact that the highway passes in proximity to Pottle Lake, the water supply reservoir for North Sydney, which required installation of pollution control monitoring and containment systems.

In 2002 a connector road was built from the Grand Lake Road interchange which gives access to the port of Sydney at the former Sydney Steel Corporation property which is now an industrial park.

In the fall of 2006, an additional interchange was opened at Coxheath Road, offering direct access to the communities of Coxheath, Blacketts Lake, and the Cantley Village subdivision.

In January 2008, a public meeting was held to discuss the required infrastructure to finally twin Highway 125 from its six lane divided portion in Sydney River to its eastern terminus at Grand Lake Road. The design work and implementation will require the construction of a roundabout at the George Street exit (in addition to the roundabout at the Alexandra Street exit that was completed in December 2009), as well as over-pass structures for George Street, and Cow Bay Road/Upper Prince Street. The Cow Bay Road/Upper Prince Street overpass has now been cancelled, and a round-a-about is being proposed for Exit 9. At-grade intersections will be eliminated, and access roads will be constructed for a DND small arms range between Exits 8 (George Street) and Exit 9 (Grand Lake Road/SPAR), as well as the fresh water reservoir. The project is expected to be completed in 2012.

On December 4, 2010, twinning was completed from Exit 4 near Balls Creek to Exit 5A near Coxheath.

History
The highway was built in the late 1950s - early 1960s and extended from North Sydney to Point Edward, but branched off in Point Edward and continued along Nova Scotia Route 305 then Trunk 5 until Sydney River. When Highway 125 bypassed the Trunk 5 sections of 125 in the late 1960s - early 1970s it became a controlled access highway for a lot of the highway. In 1970 the highway extended to Grand Lake Road bypassing Sydney to Nova Scotia Trunk 4. In the 1990s the highway became twinned from Balls Creek - Upper North Sydney and from the late 1990s- early 2000s it was twinned around North Sydney and waterlines were placed around Pottle Lake. In 2010 the highway was twinned from Point Edward to Sydney River. In 2014 and 2015 the highway was twinned between Sydney River and Grand Lake Road (its eastern terminus).

Kilometres northwest to southeast
0 to 2.7 km
 * This section was built in the early 1960s as an uncontrolled access highway
 * At Exit 2 Johnston Road; King Street there was an intersection until the early 2000s when it was twinned to a 4 lane freeway
 * The speed limit is 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph)

2.7 km to 9 km
 * This section was built in the early 1960s as a Super 2 controlled access highway
 * This section was twinned to a 4 lane freeway between the early 1990s until the early 2000s
 * The speed limit is 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph)

9 km to 11.6 km
 * This section was built in the late 1950s as a Super 2 uncontrolled access highway
 * Three intersections were inserted before Exit 3 and 4 were built
 * This section was twinned to a 4 lane freeway in the early 1990s
 * The speed limit is 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph)

11.6 km to 19.2 km
 * This section was built in the late 1960s as a Super 2 controlled Access Highway with the exception of an intersection
 * A new interchange at Exit 5A was put in 2006 for connections to Coxheath Road, Blacketts Lake
 * This section was twinned in 2010
 * The speed limit is 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph)

19.2 to 28.0 km
 * This section was built in the late 1960s as a Super 2 controlled access highway.
 * This section was twinned between 2014 and 2015.
 * A new interchange at Exit 7A was put in 2015 for connections to Membertou.
 * It is the busiest section of this highway
 * The speed limit is 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) with the exception of Cow Bay Road and the end of the highway where it is at 80 kilometres per hour (49 mph)

title: Nova Scotia Highway 125


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Stuart Island

Stuart Island can refer to a number of different Islands:
 * Stuart Island (Washington), one of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, the United States
 * Stuart Island (British Columbia), an island in the Discovery Islands of British Columbia, Canada
 * Stuart Island, Alaska
 * Sikaiana, (formerly called the Stewart Islands) a 2 km2 atoll with no safe anchorage in the Solomon Islands 212 km NE of Malaita
 * Steward Island, an uninhabited island in King Christian IX Land, at the eastern end of Greenland

 * See also
 * Stewart Island/Rakiura in New Zealand

title: Stuart Island


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Talk:Toledo Harbor Light

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This article needs a picture of the lighthouse! Jeeb 18:27, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Google Maps satellite view
User:7&6=thirteen, the URL from this January 2009 edit is bad. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:14, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Well, I guess there's not much to see from the satellite but water, anyway. wbm1058 (talk) 00:59, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:Toledo Harbor Light


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Carbol fuchsin

Carbol fuchsin, carbol-fuchsin, carbolfuchsin, or Castellani's paint (CAS ) is a mixture of phenol and basic fuchsin that is used in bacterial staining procedures. It is commonly used in the staining of mycobacteria because it has an affinity for the mycolic acids found in their cell membranes.

It is a component of Ziehl–Neelsen stain, a differential stain. Carbol fuchsin is used as the primary stain dye to detect acid-fast bacteria because it is more soluble in the cells' wall lipids than in the acid alcohol. If the bacteria is acid-fast the bacteria will retain the initial red color of the dye because they are able to resist the destaining by acid alcohol (0.4–1% HCl in 70% EtOH). Additionally, it can be used for the staining of bacterial spores.

Carbol-fuchsin is also used as a topical antiseptic and antifungal.

title: Carbol fuchsin


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Talk:Petard

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Hamlet's actual meaning is "cause the bomb maker to be blown into the air with his own bomb," metaphorically turning the tables on Claudius, whose messengers are killed instead of Hamlet.

Doesn't that mean roughly the same as a hangman being hung with his own rope?
 * I have to second this observation, and was equally confused myself. Can anyone clarify what the major difference in usage is here? Mineralogy 08:44, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thirded. I really can't see the difference.

With Shakespeare's fondness for double entendre and dirty jokes, and the entymology of the word as given in the article, it suggests to me that Willie might have meant neither rope nor bomb, but something more flat(ulent).--Buckboard 02:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

you so funny 83.70.41.213 15:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Spelling: petar
Shakespeare's line was "...his own petar," so spelled.

Animal Trap?
The animal trap definition seems to be taken from here: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_295b.html where Cecil Adams specifically denies it. Does anyone have a primary source for this usage?

Spoiler?
I'm not actually saying to remove it, but I find it more than a little ironic to have a spoiler warning for a pop culture play written 400 years ago. --Kaz 06:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Retard
I removed the "Hoisted by his own retard" section. A claim of "entering pop culture" needs more clear support than a pun made in an article. Pjbflynn 16:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I added the section back. While I agree with your claim that the section needs more support, it's worthwhile having there now until contributors can flesh it out more. --71.132.129.100 09:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Removed. There is no indication that the claim of "entering the language" on a particular date is correct, and since the pun is obvious and not particularly interesting, it surely has been used before. It sheds no light on the word Petard, and is completely irrelevant. The entry as it stands simply says, in essence, "Once there was an article and this phrase was in it." - Corporal Tunnel 23:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Hoist
The OED (CD, v3) disagrees with hoist being the past participle of hoise. It has been in use since 1548 (54 years before Hamlet) as "hoi[h]sted". Also, Shakespeare uses the same word as present tense in 1606 in Anthony & Cleopatra ("Let him take thee, And hoist thee vp to the shouting Plebeians"). I'm diking out the sentence describing this as past tense and duplicating it here. If anyone disagrees, they can reinsert it :
 * The verb "hoist" is an irregular past tense of the verb "hoise", meaning "raise" or "lift". The same form is used in "burn" and "burnt".

86.31.121.186 01:12, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I would suggest that "hoist" in the phrase "hoist by his own petar(d)" does not necessarily mean that one is caught in the ropes to lift a petard beyond a gate or wall and lifted in that literal sense; rather, it would seem more likely that the "hoist" referred to here does indeed mean "raise / lift" as in lifted or thrown by the explosion of a petard detonated too early.

I can't imagine that an engineer being caught in the ropes of a petard that was being hoisted was a common occurrence, whereas a premature explosion due to a short or faulty fuse was probably quite common. I've made the change accordingly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.145.105.18 (talk) 17:06, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Etymology
"Etymology: Middle French, from peter, to break wind". Actually the word "pétard" exists in french (and nowadays means "firecracker") so the word almost certainly comes from the french "pétard", which itself was based on "péter" ("to fart", to be exact, but also slang for "to burst", "break", in today's french). As it is now, the article may lead one to believe "petard" was invented as an english word, ie, by the english, which it wasn't. Onaryc 17:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Medieval
Really? I don't think so 128.86.168.207 (talk) 10:23, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Maltese petards
The neutrality of the section on Maltese petards can be disputed Maltesedog (talk) 19:59, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

 * While I suspect that that the veracity of the comments may easily be confirmed, I do agree that they are not appropriate to what is, essentially, an etymological note. I will remove them. Malta seems to have a close relationship with gunpowder, was it not also the home of the fougasse (weapon)? Gaius Cornelius (talk) 12:00, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Euphemism
What an impressive array of ways to avoid using the word fart! 80.7.16.160 (talk) 23:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Hoist section edit

 * Recommended Change This line "but a straight line is rarely the safest route of departure while under fire" either needs a citation or needs removed altogether. I can say this to completely blow that sentence out of the water "the fastest way to get behind cover and out of the line of fire is a straight line".  I know this because I have a military background and we were told that running in a "zig-zag" route takes too much time and rarely works.  Thoughts?  Huey2323 (talk) 01:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, first "because I know and I'm an expert" isn't really the greatest citation; this is the internet. Everyone is an "expert", hadn't you noticed? Also "I have a military background" isn't as impressive sounding as you think; to me it sounds like you're some kid who took some NG training or ROTC courses and thinks they are the next General Patton now. Anyway, the alternative to running straight away isn't necessarily zig-zags; one can also run at a somewhat oblique angle to the enemy. This may present a slightly longer run, depending on the situation, but it also presents a target moving across the enemy's field of view, forcing him (or her) to "lead" you to score a hit, as opposed to a basically stationary target presented by a person running directly away from you. It also should be taken into consideration what sort of weapons we are talking about; faced with automatic weapons or rapid fire rifles, creating lead may have less benefit than just getting to cover ASAFP, and so this may be what they tell modern soldiers....although this of course will vary depending on the circumstances, it's easiest to simply teach them to do one thing whenever shot at. But if you are faced with men firing bows from castle walls, the long flight time of the projectile might indeed make it wise to zig and zag while running, since a archer needs to lead skillfully and by quite a long way to hit a running target; by frequently changing course, it would make it indeed difficult to hit a running man, except by luck and a volley of arrows. The same could be true to a lesser extent of older muzzleloading muskets, or mtchlocks. Very slow lock times, quite slow bullet, and they make a lot of smoke. I think the real problem with zig zagging while running is that for most people it's really hard to change direction a lot while running without having it slow you down; you really have to decelerate a bit to change directions, and you'll likely just twist an ankle or something. I think this is one of those cases that where in theory it's better to zig and zag, while being shot at by men with automatic rifles, just run for cover and get behind it, don't waste time with fancy tricks. AnnaGoFast (talk) 02:29, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Dubious
Pacerier (talk) 06:09, 27 February 2016 (UTC): ❝
 * Re:
 * "If a petard detonated prematurely, the petardier would be blown upward by the explosion."
 * More of a word-play than actual science? Or both?

 * Also see http://english.stackexchange.com/q/125357/8278

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Dangerous, but to whom?
The article cites the petard as "a rather primitive and exceedingly dangerous explosive device". It's not at all clear whether this is dangerous to the user or dangerous to the target. Either way, it should be made clear. -- Dan Griscom (talk) 02:17, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Seems clear enough. A petard is obviously dangerous, by design. However the unreliable and unpredictable burning rate of such early fuses meant that they could easily explode prematurely when being put in place. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:17, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

title: Talk:Petard


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Artega

Artega may refer to:

 * Artega Automobile, German manufacturer of sports cars
 * Artega tribe, African tribe
 * Alfonso D'Artega (1907–1998), songwriter, conductor, arranger, and actor
 * Jesús Loroño Artega (1926–1998), Spanish professional road racing cyclist

title: Artega