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Have a look here Talk:Rifleman#Title. You might want to comment. Thanks Mootros (talk) 17:19, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Re:pakkoruotsi

Here are some examples from newspapers where the term is used more or less neutrally: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. While the word pakkoruotsi has negative connotations for most people, it's not because the term as such is derogatory, but because lots of people hate the fact that everybody must learn Swedish. While the supporters of compulsory Swedish may find the term pejorative, lots of people simply think that it's an apt word to describe an odious phenomenon. You can compare this with Nazism, which is used as a neutral term for the ideology of national socialism, even though Nazism was in fact originally a slur and was never used by Hitler et co. themselves. The fact is that pakkoruotsi is not much more popular than Nazism in Finland, which is why it is pretty much the only term used when discussing the topic. Futhermore, often, as in many of the articles linked to above, pakkoruotsi is used as a purely descriptive noun, with no implication that the writer or speaker himself disapproves of compulsory Swedish. See also the article on pejoratives, where it is pointed out that words that start out as pejoratives may become non-pejorative standard words, and that sometimes a word is considered pejorative by some people and not pejorative by others. For these reasons I think it's apt to say that pakkoruotsi is a "somewhat charged term", and not necessarily derogatory.--Victor Chmara (talk) 12:31, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

OK, I should not have asked for evidence of use, without thinking clearer about what evidence to ask for. I think most of the examples fall in one of three categories:

• The subject of the article is criticism of mandatory Swedish or somebody not liking it
• The user (or the newspaper itself) is critical of mandatory Swedish
• The user tries to keep an informal tone by using non-formal language

I think you could find something like this about "viherpiipertäjä" or similar words (tuo on ehkä hieman yläkanttiin, mutta löytyy HS:stä ja Uudesta Suomesta). They are informal and derogative, but used in mainstream media.

"The term not deregatory, but they hate the fact." This is the problem: by using the term other than a joke, you show what you think about the phenomenon. That means the term is not neutral (somewhat charged is "vähettelyä").

In spite of Godwin's law (you might not know Usenet so it would be unfair to leave the matter) I answer your other point: I think pakkoruotsi has not reached the point where it can be considered neutral. (have to go, will return to the discussion later)

--LPfi (talk) 13:30, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

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Request for quotation: natural nuclear fission reactor

You put in a {{request quotation}} at natural nuclear fission reactor:

Do the articles state that the movements of actinides can be used as reference for nuclear waste deposits, as the wording here and especially in Deep geological repository suggests?

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Most of the non-volatile fission products and actinides have only moved centimeters in the veins during the last 2 billion years. This offers a case study of how radioactive isotopes migrate through the Earth's crust.

Since I have access to the references in question as well as the pertinent technical knowledge, I could provide quotations. But I'm a bit unclear as to what you want quoted and why: the request reason has little to do with the actual statement in question ("This offers a case study of how radioactive isotopes migrate through the Earth's crust"). As well, the title of the second citation is literally "2 billion year old natural analogs for nuclear waste disposal: the natural nuclear fission reactors in Gabon (Africa)", which seems to answer your actual question. So. If you could attempt to clarify, I can try to fulfill your request!

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Kolbasz (talk) 02:20, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

The {{request quotation}} was not quite to the point (I found no better template), so I understand clarification is needed :-)

I am worried that the reference is used to suggest that worries about the safety of proposed deep geological repositories are in fact unnecessary. I would like to know whether the article in fact discusses such implications and whether there in such case are conclusions or opinions that should be included in the articles. If there is no such discussion, I think the fact should be clearly stated, or the statement reworded so that it does not seem to suggest such conclusions.

I understand that there might not be any suitable isolated cite in the article, but it is all too easy to make too broad conclusions based on hard-to-get sources - or make it sound the source implicates such conclusions.

--LPfi (talk) 08:33, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

The request quotation was removed 25 januari 2013: [[Special:Diff/534900435|" Replaced "quotation needed" with a paraphrase of the paper's abstract, from the reference link"]. I hope the paraphrase reflects the true conclusions. –LPfi (talk) 07:38, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

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NMEA 0183 needs a review

In June 2012 you have requested [9] some clarification of comments on fields for lacking data [10] (added in September 2009 by 203.25.165.1), and now I tried to expand the topic a bit. Could you please review my recent contribution (esp. for grammar and clarity)? [11] --CiaPan (talk) 06:25, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. I think the wording is clear now. --LPfi (talk) 08:00, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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Bus axles

At Bus, you said you hadn't seen 2 axles buses in years. Are you counting the front axle or just the rear axles? The article counts the front axle. Either way, it still needs a reference, so your edit was good.  Stepho  talk  01:03, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

@Stepho-wrs: The standard city buses over here have three axles: one in the front, two at the rear. I supposed coaches look the same. If I tried to imagine a two-axle bus, I saw either a historic one, or one refurnished as private vehicle. Now that I check the Finnish Commons category, I see that there are much more quite modern two-axle buses (and coaches) than I thought. I was probably biased by the ones I see in my home town. Still, I'd say three-axle ones might be in majority over here, and saying that two-axle setup is the normal one, one should have a source citing a specific point in time, and either explicitly saying whether the statistics are global or more specific. –LPfi (talk) 06:54, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

In my part of the world (Australia), most buses are 2 axle (1 steer, 1 drive) - with a few being articulated buses with 1 more axle for the back section.

When I lived in Hong Kong it was a mix of 2 and 3 axle double decker buses and lots of Toyota Coaster 2 axle mini buses. And once standing in the back of a flatbed truck with 20 other strangers.

Visits to England was mostly 2 axle double decker buses.

Visits to Europe (Sweden, Germany, Italy) was mostly 2 axle single decker buses. Sad to say, I only spent 1 hour in Finland (Helsinki airport when transiting to Sweden) so I have no idea of Finnish buses.

Visits to Canada and US was a mix of 2 axle city buses and 3 axle coaches but that's just a vague feeling as I wasn't paying much attention to them.

So, yeah, they vary a lot by location.  Stepho  talk  10:12, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Stepho-wrs. I wonder whether there are sources to use for writing something in the article. Perhaps rather than getting a source for the current wording, one could discuss what kind of buses have one or two rear axles. I suppose two rear axles dominating in Turku is due to the low-floor design with the motor in the rear end. –LPfi (talk) 09:09, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

I don't have any book references but I do remember something I read a few years back. British buses had strict lengths by law according to the number of axles - extra axles allowed extra length, which allowed more passengers. The 2 axle buses had 4 tyres per axle at the rear. The 3 axle buses had only 2 tyres per axle, which intruded less into the interior and allowed more passengers. So both British types had 4 tyres at the rear but the 3 axle versions could hold more people. But over the years the laws allowed longer lengths until the 2 axle type held enough people. Also, Britain has very tight roads and longer buses can't go around tight corners.

In Kong Kong, the heavier 3 axles buses had trouble going up mountain roads (HK has a lot of mountains), so the 3 axle buses were used on flat routes and the smaller 2 axle buses were used on mountain routes.  Stepho  talk  22:16, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

I think we have similar legislation. The typical bus here has the two rear axles below the higher rear department, which means they do not intrude on passenger space (the floor is only a little higher under the affected seats). At least one of the rear axles has four wheels (I think the other hasn't). –LPfi (talk) 07:58, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

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Fixed. Fixed also the disambiguation page. Odd that the town isn't handled as the primary sense of the name. –LPfi (talk) 12:44, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

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Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is currently 85.76.130.16 (85-76-130-16-nat.elisa-mobile.fi). Whether or not this address has been used as a proxy, it is apparently dynamically assigned to mobile phone data connections by one of Finland's main mobile phone operators. It doesn't seem sensible to block such dynamic addresses (the block was attributed to ‪ST47ProxyBot‬). Personally I have no need for an unblock; I will probably be using another IP when this request gets answered, but others will be hit. LPfi (talk) 17:12, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

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