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Do the three-letter abbreviations for Premier League teams (as seen across the top row of this table) have any official status, or are they Wikipedia creations? (I wondered if they might be comparable to the IOC country codes,) → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 02:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
There are no official abbreviations of team names and they do vary from time to time. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:22, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Who was the one that said: I may be drunk tonight but tomorrow I will be sober and you will still be ugly. (Please show reference!)— Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.198.90.62 ( talk) 03:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Nearly every time I'm in the shower, I look up at my or my wife's razor and wonder why women's razors are so much bulkier than men's. At right is a selection of various men's razor blade refills. I use a Gillette Mach3 and my wife uses whatever Gillette calls their women's model. Where the blades clip onto the handles are the same and the blades interchangeable which makes packing for a trip a bit simpler. The women's blades though have much more plastic all the way around the blades. The cartridge is basically oval shaped with what I think of as "bumpers" all around the blade. What is the purpose of so much bulk? I could imagine that if a woman were to shave her pubic region then the extra plastic would get in the way of getting into tight spots like where the leg meets the pubic area. I especially noticed this when I recently ran out of blades and had to borrow my wife's razor. I found it very hard to cut the whiskers just under my nostrils.
As a side note, while trying to research this and find an image of a women's razor I went to the Gillette web site and could not find any women's products. I know they make them but could not find them on the site. I don't remember any "guy mode" in my browser settings, so I wonder how women are to find info about their razors on Gillette's site.
Anyway, if someone could tell me what the bumpers are for, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 06:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi All, I am trying to help out in a couple of areas and one issue has been raised which I can not find out whether it can be done on wiki or not. The issue; a large listing has many links to the source information all URL's start with something like " http://www.example/sever/locale/" and then there are a reference number and a status i.e. "1234/44/made" making a final link of " http://www.example/sever/locale/1234/44/made". So, the question is, can I declare the url as a variable and reference the variable in wiki text to reduce the overall size and making load times faster, less resource hungry etc. Thank you The Original Filfi ( talk) 10:38, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
{{sever|1234/44/made}}
produces
http://www.example/sever/locale/1234/44/made. I don't recommend this if all the template does is make part of the url, but if it does more like format a reference then it could be useful, especially if the source is also of use in other pages. A template would be more resource hungry than just writing the full url in the wikitext.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
20:14, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Can someone direct me to an article that explores the position that, because human brains are finite, it is therefore impossible for any human brain (or set of brains working together collectively) ever to comprehend and understand the whole of reality? There must be a term for this, but, being particularly stupid today, I can't think what it is. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 10:41, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
The BMW i3 is a range-extended electric car. It does 100 miles on electric, and another 100 miles on petrol. The petrol is only meant to be a backup - it's supposed to be used on electric only normally. For this sort of car (not necessarily that model), could somebody use the petrol engine to recharge the batteries with the car stopped like an on board generator? I imagine it would need a bit of reprogramming to do it.
Or expanded: fill it, charge it, drive 100 electric miles, drive another 100 petrol miles, fill it, run the engine in the same place for a few hours to recharge the battery, fill it, and drive another 200 miles? -- 92.25.228.93 ( talk) 15:23, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Well the engine would need to power the radiator and prevent the engine overheating, however as an occasional use for going on holiday, for example.-- 92.25.228.93 ( talk) 16:53, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
If it were practical I would probably buy one. -- 92.25.228.93 ( talk) 23:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
If this were a realistic image, not a romantic image, would Napoleon be likely to fall off his horse soon afterward? Or can skilled horsemen generally stay on a horse when it's bucking like this? 2001:18E8:2:1020:111B:FF1C:2E91:2977 ( talk) 19:28, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Surprisingly, I haven't been able to find an authoritative source for a definition or explanation of the common term: artist's conception. It is fundamentally related to Concept art, but the term is not mentioned in the article, and I wouldn't want to add it without citing a "reliable source". I believe there is a distinction that is not derivable from the component terms artist + conception. Using, Art dictionaries and glossaries indexed by the OneLook® search engine: shows that all 116 sources don't recognize the term "artist's conception". (Btw, there is a related discussion over at Wiktionary). — Preceding query added by 71.20.250.51 ( talk) 20:06, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
OP, you say "I believe there is a distinction that is not derivable from the component terms artist + conception". The evidence - or lack thereof - would seem to suggest your premise is flawed. Whenever I've seen the term used, and it's been in the sorts of cases listed by Baseball Bugs above, it's meant exactly what you'd think it means from the meanings of the two words. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 22:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
There are a lot of different subjects being discussed here but they are all separate to the "artist's conception of..." Concept art and conceptual art are not the same thing. Conceptual art places planning before hand as the emphasis of its core idea after which is carried out to that plan. That could be anything, real, imagined or in between but is not what the OP is speaking of as this is simply a method of painting. Concept art is simply the illustration of something in a planning stage, before completion of a project or product. Concept art is not an artist's interpretation for the main reason that concept art is based on the idea and design already established by others and has a specific use for such things as car design, film story boards and of product design. These things need an artist to create concept illustrations to give designers a feel for the end product to their specifications. Many times the artist will redo the image from the suggestions or orders of a client.
An Artist's concept is a different animal and has a distinct definition. An artist's conception is when there is no existing image of a subject and an artist's uses any bit of information to "recreate" not "create". If you look for portraits of Julius Caesar, every image you find is an artist's concept of what the man might have looked like. Historic reconstructions of buildings, structures and other architectural elements from Ancient Rome utilize the "artist's conception" to illustrate lost monuments. We have no idea what the roman forum looked like, but artists have been conceptualizing the space for hundreds of years.
Now lets take the above examples of the Britannic. None of those are actually an artist's conception (regardless of the descriptions) because the images are based on photographs of the actual liner. That isn't a conceptual artistic expression but simply copying another image or altering an existing image. The artist's conception is when there is little to nothing to go on or you are depending on source material such as a description or even another conceptual interpretation as the base, such as the portrait of Caesar shown here based on another artist's concept in 3 dimensional sculpture. The conceptual interpretation here is skin, hair and eye color. The Theatre of Pompey article has an artist's concept of what that building might have looked like based on other similar structures, the written documentation of the theatre and archaeological evidence. SemanticMantis pretty much hits this on the head although planets no longer qualify as there are too many photos and artists use those and are not conceptualizing as much as representing the subject with the use of photos and other imagery just like the Britannic images. The artist's conception is defined, therefore, as the conceptual interpretation of a long lost subject, where no existing accurate representations exists.-- Mark Miller ( talk) 13:00, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
It seems another term for this, in some branches of science at least, is a "restoration". See the discussion here. The term is still used in the article for a caption. -- Dweller ( talk) 16:45, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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Do the three-letter abbreviations for Premier League teams (as seen across the top row of this table) have any official status, or are they Wikipedia creations? (I wondered if they might be comparable to the IOC country codes,) → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 02:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
There are no official abbreviations of team names and they do vary from time to time. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:22, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Who was the one that said: I may be drunk tonight but tomorrow I will be sober and you will still be ugly. (Please show reference!)— Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.198.90.62 ( talk) 03:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Nearly every time I'm in the shower, I look up at my or my wife's razor and wonder why women's razors are so much bulkier than men's. At right is a selection of various men's razor blade refills. I use a Gillette Mach3 and my wife uses whatever Gillette calls their women's model. Where the blades clip onto the handles are the same and the blades interchangeable which makes packing for a trip a bit simpler. The women's blades though have much more plastic all the way around the blades. The cartridge is basically oval shaped with what I think of as "bumpers" all around the blade. What is the purpose of so much bulk? I could imagine that if a woman were to shave her pubic region then the extra plastic would get in the way of getting into tight spots like where the leg meets the pubic area. I especially noticed this when I recently ran out of blades and had to borrow my wife's razor. I found it very hard to cut the whiskers just under my nostrils.
As a side note, while trying to research this and find an image of a women's razor I went to the Gillette web site and could not find any women's products. I know they make them but could not find them on the site. I don't remember any "guy mode" in my browser settings, so I wonder how women are to find info about their razors on Gillette's site.
Anyway, if someone could tell me what the bumpers are for, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 06:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi All, I am trying to help out in a couple of areas and one issue has been raised which I can not find out whether it can be done on wiki or not. The issue; a large listing has many links to the source information all URL's start with something like " http://www.example/sever/locale/" and then there are a reference number and a status i.e. "1234/44/made" making a final link of " http://www.example/sever/locale/1234/44/made". So, the question is, can I declare the url as a variable and reference the variable in wiki text to reduce the overall size and making load times faster, less resource hungry etc. Thank you The Original Filfi ( talk) 10:38, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
{{sever|1234/44/made}}
produces
http://www.example/sever/locale/1234/44/made. I don't recommend this if all the template does is make part of the url, but if it does more like format a reference then it could be useful, especially if the source is also of use in other pages. A template would be more resource hungry than just writing the full url in the wikitext.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
20:14, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Can someone direct me to an article that explores the position that, because human brains are finite, it is therefore impossible for any human brain (or set of brains working together collectively) ever to comprehend and understand the whole of reality? There must be a term for this, but, being particularly stupid today, I can't think what it is. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 10:41, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
The BMW i3 is a range-extended electric car. It does 100 miles on electric, and another 100 miles on petrol. The petrol is only meant to be a backup - it's supposed to be used on electric only normally. For this sort of car (not necessarily that model), could somebody use the petrol engine to recharge the batteries with the car stopped like an on board generator? I imagine it would need a bit of reprogramming to do it.
Or expanded: fill it, charge it, drive 100 electric miles, drive another 100 petrol miles, fill it, run the engine in the same place for a few hours to recharge the battery, fill it, and drive another 200 miles? -- 92.25.228.93 ( talk) 15:23, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Well the engine would need to power the radiator and prevent the engine overheating, however as an occasional use for going on holiday, for example.-- 92.25.228.93 ( talk) 16:53, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
If it were practical I would probably buy one. -- 92.25.228.93 ( talk) 23:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
If this were a realistic image, not a romantic image, would Napoleon be likely to fall off his horse soon afterward? Or can skilled horsemen generally stay on a horse when it's bucking like this? 2001:18E8:2:1020:111B:FF1C:2E91:2977 ( talk) 19:28, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Surprisingly, I haven't been able to find an authoritative source for a definition or explanation of the common term: artist's conception. It is fundamentally related to Concept art, but the term is not mentioned in the article, and I wouldn't want to add it without citing a "reliable source". I believe there is a distinction that is not derivable from the component terms artist + conception. Using, Art dictionaries and glossaries indexed by the OneLook® search engine: shows that all 116 sources don't recognize the term "artist's conception". (Btw, there is a related discussion over at Wiktionary). — Preceding query added by 71.20.250.51 ( talk) 20:06, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
OP, you say "I believe there is a distinction that is not derivable from the component terms artist + conception". The evidence - or lack thereof - would seem to suggest your premise is flawed. Whenever I've seen the term used, and it's been in the sorts of cases listed by Baseball Bugs above, it's meant exactly what you'd think it means from the meanings of the two words. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 22:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
There are a lot of different subjects being discussed here but they are all separate to the "artist's conception of..." Concept art and conceptual art are not the same thing. Conceptual art places planning before hand as the emphasis of its core idea after which is carried out to that plan. That could be anything, real, imagined or in between but is not what the OP is speaking of as this is simply a method of painting. Concept art is simply the illustration of something in a planning stage, before completion of a project or product. Concept art is not an artist's interpretation for the main reason that concept art is based on the idea and design already established by others and has a specific use for such things as car design, film story boards and of product design. These things need an artist to create concept illustrations to give designers a feel for the end product to their specifications. Many times the artist will redo the image from the suggestions or orders of a client.
An Artist's concept is a different animal and has a distinct definition. An artist's conception is when there is no existing image of a subject and an artist's uses any bit of information to "recreate" not "create". If you look for portraits of Julius Caesar, every image you find is an artist's concept of what the man might have looked like. Historic reconstructions of buildings, structures and other architectural elements from Ancient Rome utilize the "artist's conception" to illustrate lost monuments. We have no idea what the roman forum looked like, but artists have been conceptualizing the space for hundreds of years.
Now lets take the above examples of the Britannic. None of those are actually an artist's conception (regardless of the descriptions) because the images are based on photographs of the actual liner. That isn't a conceptual artistic expression but simply copying another image or altering an existing image. The artist's conception is when there is little to nothing to go on or you are depending on source material such as a description or even another conceptual interpretation as the base, such as the portrait of Caesar shown here based on another artist's concept in 3 dimensional sculpture. The conceptual interpretation here is skin, hair and eye color. The Theatre of Pompey article has an artist's concept of what that building might have looked like based on other similar structures, the written documentation of the theatre and archaeological evidence. SemanticMantis pretty much hits this on the head although planets no longer qualify as there are too many photos and artists use those and are not conceptualizing as much as representing the subject with the use of photos and other imagery just like the Britannic images. The artist's conception is defined, therefore, as the conceptual interpretation of a long lost subject, where no existing accurate representations exists.-- Mark Miller ( talk) 13:00, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
It seems another term for this, in some branches of science at least, is a "restoration". See the discussion here. The term is still used in the article for a caption. -- Dweller ( talk) 16:45, 10 March 2014 (UTC)