Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2014 September 10

= September 10 =

Song Name
What exactly is the name of the song in the first commercial/advertisement (the one with the "lemon chicken") in this link?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGvSJaX2BIY Futurist110 (talk) 01:16, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * "One Great Love" by The Five Keys (1958). ---Sluzzelin talk  01:33, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Merci beaucoup! Futurist110 (talk) 02:29, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Re:WP:Size in volumes
What's the size of a Britannica volume?

This is very hard to find on the Internet, even Amazon if they give it at all just gives the size of the set packed into a brick with uncertain form. The first Google result is some guy on Wikipedia Talk:Size in volumes saying that it's 19 inches, that's freaking huge, and too small to be cms. Maybe that article's scale picture can finally be to scale, I believe it's still scaled by "feel".

I measured one once but forgot the numbers. They're all exact inch fractions - the width seems random but becomes extremely accurate when you squeeze the book so hard it can't compress no more.

And that article says 44 million words in 32 volumes, but 2 volumes are just the index. Should it say 44M words in 30 volumes? A real paper WP would need an index too, so the # of volumes shouldn't be reduced. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 06:44, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * (OR warning:) one of the Britannica volumes I have here on the shelf measures 285 x 225 x 40. --ColinFine (talk) 18:27, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * That would have been a more useful answer if you'd told us the units! We should assume millimeters.  So 40mm/volume - 30 volumes is 1.2 meters...close to 4 feet...which seems about right to me.


 * Converting in Google gives 11 1/4" x 8 7/8" x 1 9/16" which brings back the ways I tried to remember it (ie a fourth, an eight, and a sixteenth), so even a British measurer agrees with me (so much so that it was hard to tell if Britannicas were metric or Imperial — the values are only 0.75mm, 0.425mm and 0.3125mm apart! Might this be intentional? Thermal expansion is about 0.3%, I made sure the ruler reached room temperature! And didn't absorb humidity! (no wood) I managed to squeeze the book to about 39.7mm despite the paper absorbing water and 10 kg less help from air pressure (it was raining), so I think US Britannicas at least are Imperial) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 04:47, 11 September 2014 (UTC)


 * However, measurement of the Britannica is very sensitive to which version you're talking about. The copy we had at home when I was a kid took up about 4 to 5 feet of shelf space and included an atlass, a single volume index and a year book for the year we bought it...which suggests that ColinFine's numbers are about right.  When I bought my own copy decades later, it came as a "propedia", a "micropedia" and a "macropedia" - as well as index, atlas and one year book for each year for several years.


 * Which of those are legitimately comparable to Wikipedia is hard to know because our work isn't organized in those levels of depth. But for sure, 19 inches is far too small to be the shelf space for the entire set.


 * SteveBaker (talk) 01:34, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Eviction records
Hi,

I live in North Carolina and am trying to find a decent source (preferably online) to determine how many evictions have been carried out at a certain address, and when. I'm not even sure if this is the sort of thing that would be on public record. A Google search did turn up a few hits, but most of them are pay services and seem to be geared toward landlords seeing whether a certain tenant has recently been evicted from another home. I'm effectively trying to do the opposite (see how many tenants a landlord has evicted from a specific address). Is this the sort of thing I'm likely to find publicly available, and if so, where? Thanks. 198.86.53.69 (talk) 17:48, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * These sorts of records are commonly held at the county level. Here's a random NC county's web page, that has a form that you can fill out requesting public information . I recommend looking through your county's web presence, and if the info is not easily downloadable, it should be available upon request. SemanticMantis (talk) 19:06, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Not at all to contradict SemanticMantis, but evictions when actually physically carried out are done by the local sheriff's office. You might want to try contacting them as well, although my knowledge is based on different states, not NC. User:Jayron32 might also be a good person to contact if I correctly remember. μηδείς (talk) 21:26, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping, Medeis. I have lived in Cakalaky for many years, but don't have a lot of experience with eviction statistics.  My best guess on how to get the information would either be a properly formatted and submitted FOIA request, or to contact the county records office.  I believe bot Medeis and SemanticMantis are correct when they say this sort of thing is handled on the county level.  I live in Wake County, for example, and here is their online public records request page.  You may have to find a similar office at your local county.  That'd be my best advice. -- Jayron  32  23:25, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Cakalaky? Is that the same as Cackalacky?  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  01:17, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Shonuff. You and yur fancy dixunairy spellins.  -- Jayron  32  01:18, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * And here's a little light reading for you on the subject. "A word to capture the Carolinas".  -- Jayron  32  01:20, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  01:23, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The OP says: Thanks, everyone! 198.86.53.69 (talk) 15:20, 12 September 2014 (UTC)