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November 12

Disney Comics Availability

I am extremely disappointed in not being able to find the following:

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Donal Duck Uncle Scrooge Mickey Mouse Huey, Dewey and Louie Ducktales and various other Mouse and Duck stories.

What happened? Did all the writers quit? Reading these comics when I was a child inspired me to explore the world and even invent certain things like Gyro Gearloose.

I want my children to have the same experiences that I had. Reading these comics actually encourages children to read, instead of playing time wasting video games. I was overjoyed to see the Ducktales adventures on TV a few years ago, but now even that is gone.

It has been over a year since we have been able to purchase even one of these comics. I used to stay in bed and read them whenever I was sick as a child. I think you have underestimated their importance to out children. As a parent, I dislike "comics" that are not funny, but instead teach our young fresh minds to fight and kill. They will join the army soon enough. For now let them be children and enjoy the reading of the Duck and Mouse adventures.

Sincerely, Barry Murphy 2603:8000:F3A:632D:1DA:FA45:9188:3781 (talk) 03:53, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We are an encyclopedia. Even if it were fitting for an encyclopedia to publish stories from the Donald Duck universe, doing so we would be sued for copyright infringement by the mighty Walt Disney Company. Bookstores or else online marketplaces for books and other media are more suitable for finding such items. --Lambiam 06:19, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Old-fashioned comics are easily available from sites such as eBay. Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:14, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, what was the question? Dcs002 (talk) 21:56, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think the question is "Why has IDW Publishing stopped publishing new issues of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories?" Our article shows the series as ending in July 2020. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 14:24, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

According to our article IDW publishing, IDW announced around 2021 that the comic book license for Disney properties would pass to Marvel Comics. Reportedly, plans are in the works for Marvel Comics publishing a series of covers in 2023 with stories casting classic characters from the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck universes as classic Marvel heroes such as Captain America and the Incredible Hulk.^[1] --Lambiam 08:28, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Internet search of public records in the US

Is there a free way or low-cost way to search public records in the US? I tried one that said that it was free. After it searched, it wanted me to pay for a subscription to get the results. I didn't want do that, so I didn't. I don't mind paying a few dollars for a search. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 04:57, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The rules vary from state to state. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:08, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in the state of Georgia, searching here. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 05:51, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest that you communicate with the staffers for your two local Georgia General Assembly members. They are experts at searching Georgia records, and should be eager to help a constituent. Cullen328 (talk) 06:00, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It depends entirely on the type of records you're searching for. The National Archives can be a place to begin for federal records. For military records it can be a bit nightmarish depending on how specific you need the records to be. Federal records are an uncoordinated mess. There are advocates online who can help you with FOIA requests. They might also be able to help you find where to look for non-FOIA inquiries. For state records, yeah, the staffers recommended by !Cullen328 are probably a good place to start. The main point is that there is no single place to find public records in the US. That's the challenge. Oh, your local public librarian, or a history grad student with research experience could also help. Your question is simply too broad for a simple answer here. Dcs002 (talk) 22:03, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm looking for an easy search of public records (county or maybe state) of births, marriages, divorces, deaths, property records, voting records, going back 30 years. No federal records, archives, census, or FOIA stuff. I don't know if the elected representatives would have that, without accessing each database individually. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 00:20, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Have you talked to anyone at state or local health departments? They often seem to be the caretakers of such records. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:05, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you are looking for records in Georgia, the first place you should go is to contact the Georgia Archives. --Jayron 32 13:23, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that the Georgia Archives have the county records I'm mainly looking for. These are public records, but not always online, and when they are, they are in many places.

Can someone recommend one of the online services that checks all public records? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 04:10, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An online service is probably not going to help you all that much. They are mostly aggregators, and the records they do provide are extremely limited, and often consist of brief summaries. I’ve used them before and they are not helpful. What you really want to do is find out who has the specific records you are looking for and then either request those records online, call them directly, or visit them in person. There will often be a fee of some kind. Viriditas (talk) 01:03, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that I don't know which county the records would be in. An aggregator with brief summaries would probably suffice. Can you recomend one? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 02:31, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Based on your comments up above, I seriously doubt you will find anything relevant with such a service. What you want to do is search each individual index separately as recommended up above by multiple people. Since you’re looking for deaths, start with the Social Security Death Index. At the bottom of that page are a number of competing services which might help you. Viriditas (talk) 02:46, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NYC hot dogs

Hi. New York City hot dogs, are they usually pork or beef? Thanks. 93.41.96.25 (talk) 20:54, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nathan's Famous, Katz's Delicatessen and Papaya King are said to be 100% beef.[2] That article suggests that many (most?) NYC hot dogs are beef due to the prevalence of Jewish customers. In general, "delicatessen" or "kosher" hot dogs do not contain pork. 136.56.52.157 (talk) 21:30, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Any information on the street vendors? Those seem to be the quintessential NYC hot dogs to me :-) Dcs002 (talk) 22:06, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing is universal, but "usually beef" is probably the case. If that's your preference, then look for signage or just ask. 136.56.52.157 (talk) 22:41, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The franks sold at pushcarts under the blue and yellow "Sabrett" umbrellas are all beef.^[3] --Lambiam 04:30, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

November 13

Articles on Major Streets of the World

I recently had occasion to read about Gloucester Cresent in Camden Town, London.

This got me to thinking what are the criteria by which Wikipedia judges whether or not a particular street is famous or important enough to deserve an article?

Secondly, how do I find a list of of all of the Wikipedia articles about streets? What are the search terms? Merely typing "street" into the search box takes us to

Street

What search terms can I use to refine the search to produce all of the articles that Wikipedia has on particular streets? Rivelle (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You could start by looking under Category:Streets. I haven't explored that to know how complete it is, though. --174.89.144.126 (talk) 01:36, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. That's certainly enough entries to give me plenty to work on!. Rivelle (talk) 03:04, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also try Category:Roads. When I tried to look up my own city under those top-level categories, I found that Category:Streets in Toronto has only a handful of entries (and is not linked from Category:Streets in Canada by city), but most of Toronto's main streets are under Category:Roads in Toronto. --174.89.144.126 (talk) 04:49, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The notability guidelines for streets do not differ substantially from the general notability citeria: streets are presumed to be notable if they have been the subject of multiple published secondary sources which contain significant coverage and are reliable and independent of the subject. --Lambiam 03:56, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rivelle, if you want to search for street inside an article, instead of just entering in the search box you need to click the option to search for results containing or includes in the drop down box. However as you might have guess this still isn't very effective, if you try, you will see a lot of the results are to do with real streets e.g. for me this [4] gives Sesame Street, List of former Coronation Street characters, 221B Baker Street, Wolf of Wall Street (a disambiguation page), List of Fear Street books as the 2nd to 6th result. Search results are also limited to 10000 [5] and although this searchs within pages and not just the titles, I think the search engine gives some priority to titles so even the last results still generally/always have street in the title perhaps as redirects meaning stuff like Karangahape Road are probably missed unless there happens to be a redirect. (I suspect Rue de Rivoli has a redirect so is less likely to be missed.) There are also interesting cases like Great North Road, Auckland which only includes 'street' in the body because of ~~references to~~mentions of other streets but might still be considered a street and is in street categories. Nil Einne (talk) 04:22, 14 November 2022 (UTC) 09:39, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, Rue de Rivoli is in Category:Streets in the 1st arrondissement of Paris and Category:Streets in the 4th arrondissement of Paris but not in any other general street or road categories. BTW, there are various wikiprojhects dedicated to streets like Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Streets and Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads. Interesting enough, somewhat concuring with the IP's findings, there is also Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Streets but it is inactive. Also Wikipedia:WikiProject Paris Streets became Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Paris Nil Einne (talk) 09:56, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There's also Portal:Roads as a route to get to street/road related pages. Chuntuk (talk) 09:21, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Searching categories

Hi, if I wanted to search for players who are in the category "English rugby league players" and in the category "NRL players", how could I do that? Red Fiona (talk) 07:47, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

PetScan is supposed to allow you to do this, but personally I've never understood how it works. Maybe you will have better luck. --Viennese Waltz 08:22, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I figured it out. It can be very useful! Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 21:38, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. Red Fiona (talk) 00:38, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So, you enter "English rugby league players" as the first line of the box and "National Rugby League players" as the second line, select "Intersection", click "Do it" and 0 results are returned. But that's because categories have sub-categories, and articles are supposed to put the subject in the deepest applicable sub-category, or something. So if you change the 0 in the "Depth" box to 1 you get 106 results. The first of these is Martin Offiah. If you look at his article, he's in the "English rugby league players" category but not in the "National Rugby League" players category. But he is in the "Sydney Roosters players" category, which is a sub-category of the "National Rugby League" players category. You'll get even more results if you change the 1 to 2, 3 or 4, but I don't pretend to understand the niceties of what's going on there. --Viennese Waltz 10:20, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

1 only searches the 2 categories and their subcategories, 2 searches the 2 categories plus their subcategories plus subcategories of their subcategories but not subcategories of subcategories of subcategories or further down. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 21:52, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the extra work as well. I'll pass the info on to the person who was looking for the info - the other option was brute force and I told him that would be difficult. Thanks again. Red Fiona (talk) 00:39, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

November 15

Will Google Street View be closed?

Will whole Google Street View be closed in 2023? Or will just mobile app close, and web version remains active? --40bus (talk) 15:04, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This suggests it's just the mobile app. --Viennese Waltz 15:26, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OP, just use street view in Google Maps. That's what I do, and it works great. Viriditas (talk) 19:58, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

November 16

How does Google Maps define "population areas"?

I'm curious about the light gray color that Google Maps uses to denote (supposedly) populated places. According to one website, it's for "population areas, cities, suburbs", but the actual implementation seems a little weird. In my area, for instance, [Smaller Town] borders [Larger Town], which borders [Regional City] – but even though [Larger Town] has roughly twice the population and density of [Smaller Town], and hosts more businesses, schools, etc., [Smaller Town] – along with [Regional City] – is shown as built-up light gray, while [Larger Town] is shown as rural green. What gives? Lazar Taxon (talk) 18:46, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My guess is that it uses census tract data for this information. The U.S. census has its own definitions for what it defines as an "urban area" vs. a "rural area", and these do not often follow political boundaries. The U.S. census calls these defined urban areas as a Census-designated place, and they are very common in areas local municipality boundaries do not closely mirror settlement patterns; for example in New England, where the census does not recognize New England towns as a legitimate municipality (despite being actual legal municipalities) because town lines do not often mirror settlement patterns, and towns often contain a mixture of urbanized and rural areas. This also happens in areas of the U.S. where legal incorporation is not always done alongside population growth; for example in unincorporated places like Cleveland, Johnston County, North Carolina (near where I live), which has no municipal government, but which otherwise resembles "town" from its settlement pattern. This information is, of course, specific to the U.S., but if you live in another country, Google is probably importing this data from whatever equivalent government body handles this sort of thing in your country, and for similar reasons. --Jayron 32 19:22, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of fact, I am in New England – and you're right, it only shows the center of [Smaller Town] as built up, not the whole municipality. But I'm still baffled, because the center of [Larger Town] is, by any thinkable measure, more built up. Could it be that perhaps there's some measure of local prominence involved, and that [Smaller Town] is more "distinctively" built up owing to its greater distance from [Regional City]? Lazar Taxon (talk) 19:52, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CDP definitions lag far behind "data on the ground" in my experience. I grew up in Hudson, New Hampshire, which has the smaller Hudson (CDP), New Hampshire. AFAIK, the boundaries of the CDP have never been changed since I was a child in the 80s; since then the town has grown from mostly rural with a small dense core to mostly urban densities; so the CDP no longer represents the built-up area. --Jayron 32 20:04, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Europe warmer than North America?

I've been looking up the weather for London, UK. I'm wondering why London is warmer than Calgary even though they're at similar latitudes? 67.215.28.226 (talk) 20:20, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The immediate observation is altitude. Higher altitudes are generally colder. London is barely above sea level. Calgary is over 3,000 feet above sea level. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 20:27, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)See North Atlantic Current, a branch of the Gulf Stream. The mass movement of warm, tropical water northeast through the North Atlantic mediates the climate of Western Europe, making the temperatures milder than you find in other areas. Calgary also has a Continental climate, which is known for wilder temperature swings (higher highs and lower lows) than coastal regions, generally speaking. Climate is complex, and latitude is only a very rough predictor of climate; other factors (elevation, bodies of water, vegetation, etc.) often have as much or more of an effect. --Jayron 32 20:28, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see. Thank you. 67.215.28.226 (talk) 20:44, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Further to Jayron's excellent comments, Calgary has a very high level of 'Continentality', while the UK does not. Calgary is explicitly listed at Continental_climate#Canada. When the UK suffers what the media often calls a "Siberian blast" or similar, it's because our usual westerlies have turned into easterlies and we get to feel a touch of what others in Europe experience in winter, even at much more southerly lattitudes.

It's the same within Europe. You can compare the climates of cities on or close to the 51st parallel north. Most tend to have much colder winters and much warmer summers than London. --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 12:57, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The effect of the Gulf Stream and its branches can also be seen by comparing coastal cities on similar latitudes... Boston and Pontevedra lie essentially directly across the Atlantic Ocean from each other along the 42nd parallel N. Boston has a daily mean annual temperature some 3 degrees celsius colder than Pontevedra. Similarly, London lies on the same parallel of latitude as St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador, and has a daily mean annual temperature of 11! degrees celsius colder than London. The effect of the Gulf Stream on climate is massive. Even looking at locales on the western edge of North America, where the similar Alaska Current, the Pacific analogue to the Gulf Stream, is, we see that Port Hardy, British Columbia, the nearest Pacific coast municipality I can find at a similar latitude to London, is about 3 degrees celsius cooler. --Jayron 32 13:14, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, it's the Gulf Stream. Inverewe Garden in NW Scotland is able to grow sub-tropical plants, despite being on much the same latitude as the lower end of Hudson Bay and Kodiak Island, Alaska. Alansplodge (talk) 13:56, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

November 17

Closest continent from here?

What's the closest continent from Cody, Wyoming, where I live (other than North America)? 67.215.28.226 (talk) 03:46, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Asia. Cape Dezhnev in the Russian far east is about 2,700 miles from Cody. The exact dividing line between the North and South American continents is open to debate, but it it is generally taken to be in southern Panama, along the Darién watershed. Even the nearest part of Panama is further from you. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:42, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :) 67.215.28.226 (talk) 05:31, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Corrections for Arms and Armor book

We have a book, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times, published by Jack Brussel (New York) in 1989. I found an order card from 1993 attached to it for a corrections supplement. Obviously, the order was never completed or it was never received. I have been searching for the corrections supplement, but I can't find it. All I have found is that Jack Brussel publishing was primarily focused on erotica, which is odd that they would publish a very large book on arms and armor. I see that publication was taken over by Random House after 1993, but I do not see any information on a corrections supplement from them. Contacting them, I've only received a response that the book is out of print and any corrections that would have been made were included in the last edition. Does anyone else have a trick to hunting down the corrections supplement for the original edition of this book? 97.82.165.112 (talk) 14:30, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times is the Wikipedia article, for anyone that wants a courtesy link. No idea about the correction supplement; but the book was originally published in 1934, and the original author was dead over 50 years when you acquired your edition. Not sure who was updating it, but it wasn't George Cameron Stone. --Jayron 32 15:04, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A Google search only results in your enquiry above. If it exists, it apparently hasn't found its way onto the internet. Alansplodge (talk) 18:19, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Success of Wikipedia compared to other projects

I would like to know the secret of Wikipedia's success compared to other projects. I noticed that other projects like Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews don't have that level of success Wikipedia has and the WMF does not have apps for other projects. What does Wikipedia have that other projects do not besides a large userbase. Interstellarity (talk) 19:44, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

wikt:audacity fiveby(zero) 20:26, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can you explain better and tell me how audacity has to do with my question? Interstellarity (talk) 20:49, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, but i will point to Fuzheado's discussion of WP vs. Wikinews to make up for an inappropriate response. fiveby(zero) 21:29, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I imagine at least some of it is brought in by Google; due to Wikipedia's broad scope people can search just about anything and find a Wikipedia page for it. CoolJamesII (talk) 21:03, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiktionary is a fine dictionary, but I haven't seen anything about it that's notably better than any other online dictionary and the difference between online dictionaries and paper ones is not that great. Sure, the paper ones will be behind the times on neologisms, won't have spoken pronunciations, etc. but a dead tree version of the OED from five years ago is still perfectly usable. Encyclopedias aren't like that. The difference between online and paper encyclopedias is staggering: every new event, every new find or interpretation makes the paper version become obsolete very quickly. And when I think back to the crummy 60s set I used in the 80s with like ten illustrations per volume...! So, why Wikipedia versus other online encyclopedias? Some of it was just luck, and a bit of a feedback loop. More and better articles more quickly made encouraged more people to take part and continue the cycle. If there's a train wreck tonight, by tomorrow morning there will be a decent article about it; that doesn't happen in many other places. Matt Deres (talk) 22:25, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

When comparing Wikipedia with other online encyclopedias, surely the fact that anyone could add or improve content was a key factor. --Lambiam 04:03, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, see Wikipedia vs Encarta: The Ali-Frazier of Motivation which has a quote from Daniel H. Pink:

"In the mid-1990’s Microsoft started an encyclopedia called Encarta. They employed all the right incentives. They paid professionals to write and edit thousands of articles. Well compensated managers oversaw the whole thing to make sure it came in on budget and on time. A few years later another encyclopedia started — A different model — Do it for fun. No one gets paid a cent or a euro or a yen. Do it because you like to do it. Now 10 years ago if you had talked to an economist … anywhere … and said “Hey, I’ve got these different models for creating an encyclopedia — If they went head to head who would win? 10 years ago you could not have found a single, sober economist anywhere on planet earth who would have predicted the Wikipedia model. This is the Titanic battle between these two approaches. This is the Ali-Frazier of motivation, right, this is the Thrilla in Manila, alright — Intrinsic motivators vs extrinsic motivators — Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose versus Carrots & sticks – And who wins — Intrinsic motivation, autonomy, mastery and purpose — in a Knockout".

Alansplodge (talk) 11:52, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is probably relevant. Complex life only likely evolved once on Earth because once complex life existed, it created conditions that made it highly unlikely for any other simpler life to itself evolve to the complex stage. Once successful, it became impossible for any later life to compete. This even precludes other kinds of living systems which, if given time to evolve, may have been better forms of life (for any given metric of "better") than current life it; the "head start" of our current life was enough to outcompete any putative better but later forms of life from ever getting to a stage to even compete. Wikipedia has the same advantage. It was the first online encyclopedia to reach a "critical mass" of success, it is now a stable ecosystem, and new online encyclopedias, even those that have the possibility of producing a better product than Wikipedia, will never get there because they are so completely outcompeted by Wikipedia as to be dwarfed by it. This also includes other "encyclopedia adjacent" reference works hosted by Wikimedia; basically Wikipedia (and in many ways even en.wikipedia) has "sucked all of the oxygen" out of the "user-edited reference work" space, and other similar reference works, even those created by Wikimedia stand no chance to survive. --Jayron 32 14:14, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

November 18

Count of records sold in the world

Who updates the Wiki page of counts of records sold in the world of music artists? (List of best-selling music artists) And are these counts reliable? Thank you. 93.41.96.25 (talk) 08:59, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Articles are updated by many volunteers. You will see a list of them if you click the "view history" link above the article. The figures are drawn from reliable sources which are listed at the end of the article. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:40, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

November 19

Multiple questions about an image

I just uploaded this image to Commons for future article use about Renoir's Lise. I found it on page 18 of Tintamarre-Salon: Exposition des beaux-arts de 1868 / dessins de Chassagnol neveu ; quatrains de John Stick, Maxime & Vabontrain. Several things about this I don't understand. 1) What was the purpose of this booklet? Is it related to the exposition catalogue of the Paris Salon of 1868? 2) Who is Chassagnol? Was this person an illustrator? 3) Who is Vabontrain? This person appears to have authored the attached quatrain at the bottom of the image. 4) The machine translation of the quatrain doesn't make any sense since it refers to Lise having blonde braids? Since she has brown hair in most depictions, am I translating "blondes tresses" incorrectly, or is there another altogether different context that I'm missing, and perhaps the poet is referring to the metaphorical blonde braids of some kind of goddess? Apologies for all the questions... Viriditas (talk) 02:01, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here's what I think. 1) It is like a catalogue of the works displayed at the 1868 Paris Salon,* but produced independently by Le Tintamarre. 2) Chassagnol neveu made the drawings, representing the works displayed. It appears that he was a regular illustrator for Le Tintamarre. 3) John Stick, Maxime and Vabontrain were three poets (or poetasters) who supplied the satirical quatrains commenting on the works. Perhaps they too were regular contributors to Le Tintamarre. "Vabontrain" was a pseudonym for the journalist Philippe Dubois. 4) The poet did not see the actual work but only the unflattering black-and-white depiction by Chassagnol neveu, and made a bad guess. (Blonde could also refer to a golden brown, but not to dark brown hair.) --Lambiam 07:09, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

*The number 3848 for the drawing of the sculpture L'Amour captif in the booklet agrees with the number it had in the 1868 Paris Salon.^[6]

Does Ireland have Post Towns?

I've just been looking for a list of post towns in Ireland yet I can't find one.

All I've been able to find is this Postal addresses in the Republic of Ireland where I have no idea what it's talking about.

The article Post town claims that Ireland has post towns in the opening sentence, however I suspect that is incorrect.

The UK goes Neighbourhood/Village > Post Town/City > County

Whereas Ireland seems to go Neighbourhood/Village/Town/City > County Danstarr69 (talk) 13:44, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The article 'Postal addresses in the Republic of Ireland' you linked above does mention post towns (3 times) and links to List of Eircode routing areas in Ireland, which lists them. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.217.47.60 (talk) 15:57, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since the first sentence in Post town is cited to a Royal Mail publication from 2006, it can only be relevant to Northern Ireland, and not Eire.

UK local authorities and other property data users are able to structure property data using the BS7666 standard (not publicly available, but described here). According to this structure, every Basic Land and Property Unit (eg a house, though it can get far more complicated than that) has a UPRN (unique ID), and is linked to a Street by the street's USRN. The BLPU may also have a Post Town and a Post Code (if it is a delivery point). A Street, on the other hand, has an optional Locality, and a Town.

The BLPU inherits the Town from the Street it is on, but has its own Post Town, so the Post Town is not necessarily the same as the Town. The Post Town is the location of a Royal Mail depot or sorting office, and is therefore relevant for addressing mail. The Town is a more general geographical unit; there are more Towns than Post Towns. -- Verbarson ^talk_edits 19:09, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

November 20

brothel on Gunkanjima / hashima

There is really low information about the brothel on the island.

Before UNESCO has signed the island as an important piece of culture, south Korea and China was clearly against it because korean "comfort women" and Chinese "trostfrauen" had to work there. My questio would be - where did they work? Exactly in this brothel what was there on the island all the time?

I saw this brothel marked on a map but i can't find the map anymore. Did this brothel was used before WW2? Or was this brothel marked on the map established after 1945?

Is there any known price list for this brothel before and after 1945?

If this island did and does belong to Mitsubishi does it mean everything on the island is property of Mitsubishi? Even this brothel? Asked by: --109.241.100.86 02:32, 19 November 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.241.100.86 (talk) [reply]

Edit: based on maps jt looks like that the brothel didn't changed it place it was before and after 1945 on the same place the question is only if it has been closed or if the Japanese where so.. ridiculous just emptying the forced women and bring regular prostitutes there to the working place and the customers used the place like nothing special happened. Because since today there is no excuse or any payment for these women --109.241.100.86 (talk) 06:02, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Information overload

I just experienced information overload for the first time. Not sure why it’s never happened before, but I was listening to a recorded lecture and it happened. Might be because I’m getting old and I reached some kind of tipping point where my brain basically gave up. Admittedly, I was doing caloric restriction and hadn’t eaten in like eight hours, so that might have something to do with it. How does one usually deal with such a thing? I was listening to a lecture for research on an article I am working on and suddenly I felt torn in multiple directions. Should I just write an outline based on the lecture? Would that help? Viriditas (talk) 08:50, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Try eating something and taking a nap. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:39, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds like your brain ran out of energy and cut out low priority tasks, such as paying attention to a lecture. If that was what happened, it had little to do with information overload; the same could have happened with any task requiring concentrated attention but irrelevant to immediate survival. --Lambiam 19:20, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Continents from Cody, Wyoming and Kentville, Nova Scotia?

Can anyone tell me the continents from Cody, Wyoming by distance, and also Kentville, Nova Scotia (other than the continent they're in, both of them North America)? Thanks. 67.215.28.226 (talk) 19:19, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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	Can anyone tell me the continents from Cody, Wyoming by distance? ~~And~~ also Kentville, Nova Scotia? Thanks. [[Special:Contributions/67.215.28.226\|67.215.28.226]] ([[User talk:67.215.28.226\|talk]]) 19:19, 20 November 2022 (UTC)		Can anyone tell me the continents from Cody, Wyoming by distance, and also Kentville, Nova Scotia (other than the continent they're in, both of them North America)? Thanks. [[Special:Contributions/67.215.28.226\|67.215.28.226]] ([[User talk:67.215.28.226\|talk]]) 19:19, 20 November 2022 (UTC)