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September 29

"Gun Metal" Paint on Dell Laptop

Hey! An example of what I have is the Dell Insprion 15 5570 Grey Coloured laptop. There are sparkles on the paint, and everytime I touch the laptop, the sparkles and paint comes off. I have a casio watch the same colour, and it does the same thing. Is this normal? It's a grey paint job with sparkles on it. つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 00:13, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

No that isn't "normal". Are you sure they're not fake products? Have you spilled or sprayed anything on them? Some cleaning products could have that effect.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 19:19, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

My Dell and watch is a real one... I never spilled anything on it, and I have only ever used rubbing alchol to clean the chassis when it was soiled. But for the watch, I never used any chemicals on it, but it does the same thing --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 00:30, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

September 30

Alcohol

Drink alcohol in moderation. Doing so has health benefits, but is not recommended for everyone.

Moderate drinking can be healthy but not for everyone you must weigh the benefits and risks.

Alcohol may have benefits for some but maybe hazardous for others and entire books have been written on the subject

A reliable source has mentioned all of these things about alcohol following a healthy diet with Vegas whole grains and good nutritious foods and beverages but apparently alcohol has some health benefits but also says these other things mentioned above. Exactly what is the recommendation out of the things said above? 103.253.95.33 (talk) 03:34, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

The first thing that came to my mind is this: all of the above remains true for a lot of stuff that people eat. It's just that alcohol is a very delicate topic, and easily abused.

Then I googled and found a Mayo clinic page and our own Alcohol and health. See where this gets you. --Ouro (blah blah) 05:57, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Stay wary of diet studies, since it's easier to describe than prescribe what people eat. People in wine-drinking countries have less heart disease? Maybe, but it's not just the wine. Temerarius (talk) 19:35, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

What are "Vegas whole grains"? I drew a blank on google. Is it a typo for "vegan" whole grains? -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:24, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Are there non-vegan whole grains? HiLo48 (talk) 02:09, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Beer with isinglass. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 14:56, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

English term for a very common type of fountain

One of the best known types of fountain is a decorative fountain with water splashing spectacularly upwards. In fact it is so common – or at least so spectacular – that most panels of our Fountains Collage, which graces the top of our article Fountain, exhibit one. Surprisingly, there seems to be no English name for this type of fountain that would distinguish it from other fountains, such as the ones depicted below. There is the name “splash fountain”, but according to our description that refers only to the subtype also known as “bathing fountain”.

Other languages have names (and dedicated articles) for this type, e.g. “喷泉” (gushing source) or “Springbrunnen” (jump well). Or is there a name in English? ◅ Sebastian 17:53, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

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  Roman nasona

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  Arab fountain of Alcamo

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  First fountain installed in London by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain [...] Association

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  A typical modern drinking fountain

Maybe it's just called "a fountain". If it's the most ubiquitous type, it perhaps doesn't need a descriptive qualifier? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 20:08, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

From a quick Google, different websites devoted to landscaping and home improvement seem to call them "spouting fountains." At least for the Chinese, I can say that "spouting fountain" would be a pretty literal translation of 喷泉. bibliomaniac15 20:29, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you. I can agree with PaleCloudedWhite with the addition of “most English speaking people”. Most may never feel a need for a specific term, but that doesn't mean it's unnecessary. Try deleting the articles dedicated to the topic in other languages for the exciting experience of an article or topic ban! For English, I like Bibliomaniac15's suggestion of “spouting fountain”. If there is no other opinion, then that answers my question. (I have to say, though, that I disagree with declaring “fountain” a “literal translation of [...] 泉”. The one word suggested by the two sources I checked, Collins Chinese Concise Dictionary and dict.naver.com, is “spring”. Which gives me an idea: How about combining German and English – as in “Eigenvalue” – to “spring spring”? 😉) Sebastian 05:51, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

I happen to be an editor who has mostly written a Good article about the Vaillancourt Fountain, which does not spray water into the air but instead distributes it down in cascades. My article does not discuss this aspect of the design because I could find no reliable sources discussing this distinction. So, where are the reliable sources who discuss this distinction at length? Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:11, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

The central image in the illustration above is the Jet d'Eau in Geneva, which has been going for some 125 years and has inspired many imitations. So it could be called the type specimen or seminal example, and "Jet d'Eau style fountain" would be a valid (if clunky) way to describe them. King Fahd's Fountain is "the tallest of is type in the world", but the article doesn't specify what type. It says that the water is "jetted", but if I said these are therefore "jet fountains" I would be making that up.

Here's something: in Stanway House we have the term "single-jet fountain".  Card Zero  (talk) 09:19, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

I would understand the term “Jet d'Eau style fountain” to refer to a fountain closer resembling the fountain in Geneva, not like e.g. the Fuente de los Leones, shown in the lower left of the collage above. Maybe my use of the word ‘spectacular’ led a bit off track; for the Jet d'Eau that probably was the main goal. But people find the Fuente de los Leones spectacular, too, as illustrated by the poem cited here. ◅ Sebastian 15:24, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Oddly, we have the idiom natural spring, yet it really does seem there is no common phrase for the artificial kind. Even just spring tends to imply naturally gushing water rather than a fountain. Fountainhead and wellspring both mean the source of a natural stream. I'm kind of disappointed with the English language at this point. (By the way, the article on the Jet d'Eau says that it wasn't originally intended to be spectacular: it was a safety valve for a hydraulic network, and only became spectacular by accident.)  Card Zero  (talk) 17:13, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Interesting – so the Jet d'Eau may be a candidate for “Most beautiful accident ever”! ☻ Don't feel too bad about this shortcoming of English; I guess every language has such blind spots. Many languages e.g. have no gender neutral pronouns. Chinese had one, which contained the indexing component “person”, but some 90 years ago they felt they needed to imitate other languages and artificially introduced new characters for the meanings “she” and “it”, limiting the meaning of the original one to “he”. (Why they didn't introduce a new one for “he”, I don't know – they simply could have replaced the indexing component with that for “male”.) ◅ Sebastian 11:27, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

The first article I could find about Buckingham Fountain, in 1925, doesn't give a "type" for the fountain as a whole, but it refers to the many individual "jets" in the fountain. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:55, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

October 1

pushbutton ignition on cars

I rented a Nissan Altima (semi-luxobarge but the only car the agency had in stock) for a semi-emergency yesterday. It was my first time driving such a recent (post-2010 say) car afaik. It didn't have an ignition key, but just a remote. You'd use the remote to open the door, then press a button on the center console to start the motor. The weird thing is there didn't seem to be a timeout after using the remote: afaict, if you could get into the car at all, you could press the button and drive it away. That obviously seems like a huge security flaw. Maybe you could even start the motor by breaking into the car (obvs I didn't try that).

Does it really work like that? Is it really that silly? Do I miss something, like some kind of passive detection of the remote? Thanks. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:1598 (talk) 15:48, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

The fob you used to unlock the door has to be close to the push button to start the car. There is a proximity sensor involved. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 16:18, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

If you drive away without the key fob, the car will stall after it goes out of range. DOR (HK) (talk) 21:17, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that it won't. That would be a major safety risk. But it won't start without the key fob in the vicinity. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

You must have a different make and model than I do, and the risk is that the vehicle WOULD be able to be driven without the key. DOR (HK) (talk) 21:08, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

That is not a safety risk. It's arguably a security risk, but that is less relevant to public safety. The safety risk is that the car is being driven, and the driver suddenly loses control over it (e.g. drawing out of the parking bay onto the street and suddenly stopping in the path of oncoming traffic). All such systems I'm aware of inhibit the car from getting started without the key, but don't stop it in mid-operation. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 00:16, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Use of a FOB relay to steal cars is real and is dependent on the fact that cars let you drive away without the FOB being present. You just can't turn the car off and restart it. So, you have to drive it all the way back to your garage where you can reprogram it to use a new FOB. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 15:33, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

A careful reading of my previous post will uncover the startling fact that nowhere does the word “safety” appear, whether related to risk or for any other reason. This is due to the astonishing but true fact that I was not actually writing about that particular type of risk. DOR (HK) (talk) 22:57, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Then you should have more carefully explained what type of risk you were writing about (presumably, the risk that the car is stolen). In writing "the risk is...", you were implicitly referring back to the safety risk identified by the previous poster. You should have put something like "the risk, which is not a safety risk but is a security risk, is that..." --Viennese Waltz 07:12, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

October 2

Front line as of September 2, 1945

Good afternoon everyone. Is there a front line on the day that World War II ended with Japan? That is, what territories were occupied by the Japanese troops as of the surrender on September 2, 1945 in the Asia-Pacific region? --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 09:24, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Not sure about the entire front line, but the USSR famously invaded the Kuril Islands (which were long-term Japanese possessions) only a few days before that date, and as a result the ownership of four of these islands is still disputed to this day. Xuxl (talk) 12:20, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

We seem to lack a good overview of the closing stages of the War in the Pacific. It's worth remembering that places like Batu Lintang camp weren't liberated until 11th September. DuncanHill (talk) 12:47, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Map noting final Japanese lines in China and Burma between Operation Ichigo of mid-1944 and the end of the Pacific War. Alansplodge (talk) 17:22, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

The front line as of September 2, 1945 is not entirely clear. --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 10:20, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Simpler but more comprehensive; Asia Pacific 1945: Japanese Surrender. Alansplodge (talk) 17:33, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

The front line as of September 2, 1945 is not entirely clear - Brown color? --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 10:20, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes, the brown colour represents Japanese territory at the time of surrender. Alansplodge (talk) 18:28, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Question about the holiday Canada Day

Is the holiday Canada Day permanently cancelled? 2001:569:7D98:E00:E114:5414:6D73:284F (talk) 18:08, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Canada Day was not cancelled in either 2020 or 2021 (see for example here). Public festivities that would have involved crowds gathering were cancelled due to Covid-19, and some were instead celebrated online, but the Day itself was not cancelled.

The nature of some of the customary festivities is not popular with indigenous communities, as the article you linked discusses: whether this will in future lead to modification of those festivities or cancellation of Canada Day some time in the future is not something Wikipedia can forsee. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.131.207 (talk) 18:44, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Maybe you've heard this one: Is there a Fourth of July in Canada? Yes, but it comes on the First. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:03, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

October 4

Little big curiosity, thank you very much

Good evening, the link scoreboard is from Glasgow's Hampdern Park stadium, it's a bit curious and "gaunt." We are on the eve of the 2002 Champions League final, and the scoreboard itself is similar to that of the old Wembley although not the same, this is a mini display, and it is possible that the last name would appear on the screen for a few seconds when a goal is scored. of the player author of the marking itself? Thank you very much. link

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.98.118 (talk) 18:03, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

I don't understand the question: of the player author of the marking itself? --ColinFine (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes, sorry, I expressed myself wrongly. I meant to say whether the name of the player who scored the goal was likely to appear on the scoreboard. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.98.118 (talk) 18:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Do you mean the scoreboard that was there in 2002? They built a new one in 2018 - see this. Alansplodge (talk) 11:35, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Exactly, the scoreboard of 2002. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.100.82 (talk) 11:44, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

October 5

Kuwait

Why are most articles about Kuwaiti stuff a stub? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:1851:8005:355E:F9AB:849D:232C:71F7 (talk) 16:30, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Like what? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:28, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

• Because you didn't expand them. --Jayron32 17:32, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure that the OP's premise is entirely fair. A quick random sample brings up Kuwait national cricket team (Start-Class), Cinema of Kuwait (Start-Class), History of Kuwait (C-Class), Mubarak Al-Sabah, the founder of modern Kuwait (rated Start-Class but probably should be B or C) and Environmental issues in Kuwait (C-class).

According to WikiProject Kuwait, 846 out of 1,379 articles tagged by them are stubs, but this is probably not much better or worse than for other similar nations on Wikipedia. As Jayron says above, feel free to sign up with the Kuwait project and join the great undertaking. Alansplodge (talk) 18:39, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Android Phone GUI

When I get calls from people I know, my Android phone shows two circles. I can drag one to ignore the call. I can drag the other to answer the call. When I get junk calls, I see two boxes. I tap one box to ignore the call. I tap the other to answer. There is no indication why it has draggable circles in one case and tappable boxes in another. I've noticed, from my own calls, that real calls use circles and junk calls use boxes. Is that a real GUI interface indication? Does Android specifically use boxes for junk calls? Is it a Verizon thing (my carrier is Verizon). Perhaps it is an LG thing (I have an LG phone). 97.82.165.112 (talk) 16:57, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Curiosity

When Dortmund's Westfalenstadion was built for the 1974 World Cup, did the stadium already have catering areas, toilets, etc., or were these added later? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.98.150 (talk) 23:26, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

While it doesn't have the specifics you mention here Westfalenstadion#History it is hard to imagine a stadium hosting a World Cup match without toilets and food service of some sort. The stadium has undergone renovations per Westfalenstadion#Expansions so the facilities will have been updated and modernized. MarnetteD|Talk 23:52, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

October 6

Projectionists calling film reels "pizzas"

I read a Mickey Mouse comic where Mickey is investigating the theft of films from cinemas. He interviews a projectionist, who tells him and Chief O'Hara that projectionists call film reels "pizzas". This was the first time I had heard of such a thing. Googling "projectionist pizza" found no mention of this. Is this true, or was it invented for the comic? JIP | Talk 01:38, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

I couldn't find anything either. It's plausible that the writer knew one projectionist who used that jargon and added it to the text. Alansplodge (talk) 10:35, 6 October 2021 (UTC)