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Dear Sir, Madam:
Can you add my idea to your Wiki page "Venus figurines".
I think Venus figurines were objects given to women who has given birth to twins.
You see, it is a big deal to have more kids during glacial period for survival sake.
They are rarely found in graves because they were proudly displayed.
Their facelessnes indicated that the figurines were passed from woman to woman.
Note: We see things based on our personal experiences, even if one is educated.
This tendency is emphasized in our anthropologists when something we don't see nowadays show up in the ground.
Thank you very much.
Yours truly, John .Wang [personal information removed, see guidelines above.] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.98.141.146 ( talk) 18:16, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
I have a feeling there’s a simple answer to this (so don’t look past a possible answer on the grounds it’s too obvious!), but I’m drawing a blank. Let’s say I have a warehouse and on Sunday I see that I have 100 cases in it. Over the week I sell 20 and receive in 24 more, so that by the time next Sunday rolled around I have 104 cases in stock. In basic terms, I could say that I had a “ net gain” of 4 cases, but is there a standard way to measure/describe the swing of -20/+24? I don’t want to get bogged down in the basic arithmetic; I’m interested in the terms. For example, if a second warehouse also went from 100 cases to 104 cases, but sold 60 and received in 64, it would obviously be operating quite differently than the first warehouse, but what term would we use to describe the difference? Warehouse two has a larger… what? Throughput seems related, but the article makes it clear that it’s not the same thing at all (and in any case seems to deal more with production than warehousing). Any help? Matt Deres ( talk) 19:06, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't understand taxes very well...
So, I know that I make 9 dollars an hour. I also know a portion is taken out of my paycheck for taxes. I also know that the government sends me a big check after I file that (I've been told I think) contains everything they took out.
So, at the end of everything, do I get the complete amount of 9 dollars an hour for all the hours I worked? 50.43.130.15 ( talk) 20:12, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
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}} On 11 February I edited the "Background" paragraph and see that you have not accepted it. This concerns Puthoff's academic qualifications. The Wiki article now states that he has a PhD from Stanford and quotes as the source for this information, under footnote (1), the Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, although I remember EarthScience International, not this encyclopaedia, being quoted in the original Wiki article as the source for this information. Anyway, if you click on footnote (1) in your current version of the article, a page on answers.com opens up, with a page from the encyclopaedia, which gives NO source for the academic qualification information, and a Wiki article on Puthoff where the source for the academic qualification is EarthScience International, as I remember it being originally. NOW EARTHSCIENCE INTERNATIONAL IS A COMPANY SET UP BY PUTHOFF HIMSELF, AS IT SAYS IN THE "BACKGROUND" PARAGRAPH. THERE IS THEREFORE NO INDEPENDENT CORROBORATION OF THIS INFORMATION. This is what set my alarm bells going originally, and why I pursued the matter and edited in the way I did. I hope you still have that edit. I could find NO OTHER, i.e. INDEPENDENT, SOURCE FOR THIS INFORMATION. So I am very unhappy at the way the current Wiki article stands in this regard. Please contact me if you need to. P123cat1 ( talk) 22:52, 14 February 2014 (UTC) |
P123cat1 ( talk) 23:55, 14 February 2014 (UTC)Thank you for your reply and I apologise for "shouting"! It won't happen again. Thanks also for advising me how to carry the matter further. I have found "Goblin"'s page, but cannot see how to contact him, but will try again later.
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Dear Sir, Madam:
Can you add my idea to your Wiki page "Venus figurines".
I think Venus figurines were objects given to women who has given birth to twins.
You see, it is a big deal to have more kids during glacial period for survival sake.
They are rarely found in graves because they were proudly displayed.
Their facelessnes indicated that the figurines were passed from woman to woman.
Note: We see things based on our personal experiences, even if one is educated.
This tendency is emphasized in our anthropologists when something we don't see nowadays show up in the ground.
Thank you very much.
Yours truly, John .Wang [personal information removed, see guidelines above.] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.98.141.146 ( talk) 18:16, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
I have a feeling there’s a simple answer to this (so don’t look past a possible answer on the grounds it’s too obvious!), but I’m drawing a blank. Let’s say I have a warehouse and on Sunday I see that I have 100 cases in it. Over the week I sell 20 and receive in 24 more, so that by the time next Sunday rolled around I have 104 cases in stock. In basic terms, I could say that I had a “ net gain” of 4 cases, but is there a standard way to measure/describe the swing of -20/+24? I don’t want to get bogged down in the basic arithmetic; I’m interested in the terms. For example, if a second warehouse also went from 100 cases to 104 cases, but sold 60 and received in 64, it would obviously be operating quite differently than the first warehouse, but what term would we use to describe the difference? Warehouse two has a larger… what? Throughput seems related, but the article makes it clear that it’s not the same thing at all (and in any case seems to deal more with production than warehousing). Any help? Matt Deres ( talk) 19:06, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't understand taxes very well...
So, I know that I make 9 dollars an hour. I also know a portion is taken out of my paycheck for taxes. I also know that the government sends me a big check after I file that (I've been told I think) contains everything they took out.
So, at the end of everything, do I get the complete amount of 9 dollars an hour for all the hours I worked? 50.43.130.15 ( talk) 20:12, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
yelling about content dispute--please continue this on the article's talk page |
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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
}} On 11 February I edited the "Background" paragraph and see that you have not accepted it. This concerns Puthoff's academic qualifications. The Wiki article now states that he has a PhD from Stanford and quotes as the source for this information, under footnote (1), the Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, although I remember EarthScience International, not this encyclopaedia, being quoted in the original Wiki article as the source for this information. Anyway, if you click on footnote (1) in your current version of the article, a page on answers.com opens up, with a page from the encyclopaedia, which gives NO source for the academic qualification information, and a Wiki article on Puthoff where the source for the academic qualification is EarthScience International, as I remember it being originally. NOW EARTHSCIENCE INTERNATIONAL IS A COMPANY SET UP BY PUTHOFF HIMSELF, AS IT SAYS IN THE "BACKGROUND" PARAGRAPH. THERE IS THEREFORE NO INDEPENDENT CORROBORATION OF THIS INFORMATION. This is what set my alarm bells going originally, and why I pursued the matter and edited in the way I did. I hope you still have that edit. I could find NO OTHER, i.e. INDEPENDENT, SOURCE FOR THIS INFORMATION. So I am very unhappy at the way the current Wiki article stands in this regard. Please contact me if you need to. P123cat1 ( talk) 22:52, 14 February 2014 (UTC) |
P123cat1 ( talk) 23:55, 14 February 2014 (UTC)Thank you for your reply and I apologise for "shouting"! It won't happen again. Thanks also for advising me how to carry the matter further. I have found "Goblin"'s page, but cannot see how to contact him, but will try again later.