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It seems the two of us have been doing most of the recent work on the endgame tablebase article. I am too inexperienced to do some of the more complicated formatting, so thanks for that.
I want to call your attention to the section on endgame tablebases in the article on computer chess. In some places it contradicts or is redundant with the main article on tablebases. I'm not sure what to do about it, so I'm asking you to take a look.
Also, I modified the diagram formatting again. I think it's good now.
Best regards, YechielMan 06:31, 4 October 2006 (UTC).
At the top right of Georgia (U.S. state) there is a link to the flag Flag of Georgia which seems that it would take you directly to Flag of Georgia (U.S. state) but instead it goes to the dab page Flag of Georgia. Why doesn't it go to Flag of Georgia (U.S. state)? Bubba73 (talk), 23:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Bubba73, do you have a source for the complete James Randi quote you just added; namely:
My quick search of the JREF website didn't spot it, but I don't trust its search engine. Nor did I find it through Google. I see that an anonymous editor (you, I presume) just updated Rawlins' version in the Wikiquote article on Randi. I'd like to source the full quotation so we can demonstrate both the actual quote and how it's misused, which is one of the benefits of WQ's sourcing practices. Thanks for any help you can provide. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip! I'll look into it. KarlBunker 20:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bubba73/Archive 2 (2006). I noticed you added an entry to Vandalism in Progress. That page is only for very specific cases, as described by the page's guidelines. Your alert would be better placed on Administrator intervention against vandalism ( WP:AIV), where it will usually be processed within minutes. Many alerts that are incorrectly placed on Vandalism in Progress are never dealt with, simply because they become old before an administrator gets to them. Thanks for your efforts. :) -- light darkness ( talk) 01:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Christ that looks like a nightmare. I'm admittedly not very good at cutting through and rewriting stuff like that. I also (unfortunately) don't really know a great deal about Klass unlike my knowledge of Randi. I'll try to weed through some books and find some info on him, though ufology's not really one of my strong foci. However, I can promise to continue monitoring any article that is often subject to vandalism/spurious edits (such as James Randi). If you need any help with specific articles, please let me know or add to Wikipedia:Wikiproject Rational Skepticism/Skeptic watchlists. If you need (or have) any advice, please don't hesitate to contact me. -- Krash ( Talk) 20:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
"The biggest problem is that anyone can edit." :) No harm done.
If you have the time/interest: Glyconutrient. -- Krash ( Talk) 14:09, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
for your generous remarks. Tom Harrison Talk 15:05, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
If you look at my edit history, you'll find that I inhabit a lot of controversial articles about science-related concepts. I haven't yet breached the UFO issue and this is my first forray. I'm trying to take it slow as I am still occupied with a few cosmology and creationist controversies. I do recognize that the other articles are worse, but from a pure advertisement standpoint, I'm sure many more people see the UFO article than the Majestic 12 article, for example. If things improve enough at UFO that the article is actually NPOV and factual, I may move on to those other problems. -- ScienceApologist 18:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate what you did for the Meier article. It needs balance! (And presentational changes.) And I'm just not willing to put in the time needed for it, I'm sorry to say. Phiwum 16:04, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Don't know if I'm doing this correctly. However, an interesting picture, regarding the MJ12 article, and more specifically, the MJ12 documents claiming a certain James Forrestal's (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forrestal) involvment with the organization.
You will find that the below linked picture depicts Mr. Forrestal, among other men, all supposedly once beloning to the organization. (note the organizations name written on the picture)
http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/2471/mj12group2lgqm0.jpg
Thank you.
Now dear Bubba, you seem far too accomplished an experienced a wikipedian to be getting into silly edit wars on a velikovsky article. Please curb your enthusiasm. We don't want this to end in tears :)-- feline1 16:38, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
About the Velikovsky article.....I'm not sure I can be of much use. -- JWSchmidt 03:00, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I don't think I'm going to resubmit it, but I think you should. Could be an interesting article. Have to keep it really factual though.
I plan to make major changes. I posted my offering on the Moon Hoax discussion page, under that title. Let me know. The formatting didn't take in the discussion section, but you will get the jist. I wanted to remove the back and forth bickering of whether "it" happened or not and just get to the basics: What is the Moon Hoax. Nothing else. I would like to trim off the Dead Astronauts section, but I feel I am already making a large change. Let me know what you think. DartFrog 01:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Your help on articles where our paths have crossed has been much appreciated. Thanks a lot, and I'll see you 'round. We'll get that UFO article NPOV yet! -- ScienceApologist 19:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2006-02-10_UFO_topics#Mediator_response
Can you link me up with the article and tell me more about what is needed. [[[User:Simonapro|Simonapro]] 17:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)]
Hejsan Bubba73. Thanks for your referencing of the developments frequently referred to as pseudoscience or pseudoscientific. I have a suggestion for your future supportive efforts. Lilienfeld (2003) is a great book on Science and Pseudoscience in Psychotherapy and includes a lot of interesting stuff. Also, Singer (1996) Crazy Therapies is entertaining (though perhaps troublingly bizarre at times). Lots of scientific studies in both to back it all up. ODIN! Hornyhat Olafsen 03:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
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After seeing your name so often on the Apollo talk page, I finally had to check out your world view.
Hi there. Following up a discussion elsewhere, would you be able to point out something explaining what needs to be done with converting chess diagrams. What are these old and new formats you are referring to? Thanks. Carcharoth 09:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I merged these, and tidied it up - take a look and let me know what you think, For great justice. 23:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Ah, I see the problem. Please understand that Wikipedia has a specific meaning for the word "reliable", which is why I provided the link to the policy page Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Other publications may use whatever sources their editorial boards may deem appropriate, but Wikipedia requires that its sources be, in general, respectable print publications, notable websites, and well-known (and accessible) audiovisual material. The two main reasons are to put the onus of accuracy on publishers with reputations to uphold, and to make it possible for Wikipedians to verify the supposed content of the sources.
Because of this, personal communications are not valid primary sources, although they can be cited if a secondary source (like a magazine or news program) mention them, but in those cases the secondary source is what legitimizes it. I was expecting that there might be some mention in Swift, which qualifies as a notable website. (Note too that discussion boards, even when they belong to notable websites, are not usually considered reliable, as their content is not approved in advance by an editorial board. Thus, the digression on the legitimacy of Randi's response to Kolodzey is likely to be edited out over time, as it's sourced from the JREF Forum.)
By these rules, Randi's quote, "I always have an out — I'm right!", in whatever form, probably should be removed. I'd added it (or readded it, I guess) when I decided to make the "Criticism" section less like one person's crusade against Randi and more like general criticism with cited examples. It's unfortunate that this concise example doesn't appear to have a reliable source, either for its original (mis)use or Randi's response. Unless we can source it properly, it should go. If the "POV-pushers" put it back in, we should treat it as any other unsourced material and re-delete. (Such vigilance is an unfortunate but necessary part of Wikipedia article maintenance.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:59, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi
Bubba with regards to Philip Klass, Green Fireballs, Roswell Incident, Majestic 12, and Unidentified Flying Object, if you could take the time out to come up with a list of stuff I can go through each one, point and point and see if it violates wiki policy or if anything else can be done to improve the article. I have already visited some of the articles and ask for a proper referencing to take place. I have set up the standard for them to use. ( Simonapro 07:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC))
I listed it because Image:Ga1879.svg is a better version. - Reuvenk T C E 06:57, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
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We are discussing the references to Williams on the pseudoscience page; perhaps you'd like to have a look. In particular, do you know Williams' academic credentials? Hgilbert 20:19, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. You might be interested in participating in new Wikipedia:WikiProject Contract bridge. Regards, Duja 10:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bubba, thanks for you good comments on talk:Natasha Demkina However, would you please also indicate your "vote" by adding either:
or
for each of the four proposed "sources." Many thanks, Andrew Askolnick 17:12, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Not important, since no one ever said that the source is not reputable. That's why most people haven't voted. It's entirely unnecessary (in not downright inappropriate). Thanks for adding your vote. Askolnick 04:05, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I never knew it was possible to add all that stuff about playing chess, liking chocolate, being a father, being a skeptic and so forth. I'm with you on all of those. Loved the Asimov quote. Not with you on the Country/Western thing, but your line made me chuckle. A friend of mine who moved from Chicago to Texas had used that line with me ("We've got all kinds of music here. Country AND Western."). I gather that neither he nor you originated that line. Keep up your good work on the chess articles. Krakatoa 17:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
You suggested that people contact you if something was up for a vote at Talk:Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. I've just added a call for vote/comment on a comparison of two edit versions of the article, and I'd appreciate your input. Thanks! KarlBunker 14:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
As a result of you asking for mediation on the article Unidentified flying object I helped the community to push more heavily for WP:CITE and WP:NOR. The article has increased its use of wikipolicy and this should help things more. Good Luck. ( Simonapro 16:02, 13 August 2006 (UTC))
I see that even you, of the normally calm demeanor, are beginning to get riled at that guy. The banter is one thing, but his constant hatchet-job on that page is getting annoying... and to bring some guy, whom we never heard from on that page before, to semi-protect it, really makes us wonder. Wahkeenah 01:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Maybe they should have brought along a newspaper to show off on the Moon... or a draft of Kaysing's book, so they could read aloud, from the surface of the Moon, about how this wasn't really happening. Wahkeenah 01:21, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I've posted it. [ [1]] and [ [2]].
I suspect that Noodleboy is ready to "take over" the gadfly role, if he decides to devote as much time to the page as you and I and Carfiend have. In fact, he was on there awhile back, rabble-rousing, and then disappeared for awhile. Neither one, however, is as obnoxious as For Great Justice was. Reading what I just wrote, I'm thinking I've been involved in this way too long. I'm kind of excited about them looking for the tapes, though, not just for the possible additional info it could uncover, but also because it might mean a serious attempt at returning to the moon... which would squelch this bizarre conspiracy theory once and for all (unless it's true, of course. Right.) Wahkeenah 21:16, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
The contradict was a mistake, sorry. I thought I'd reverted myself but clearly I didn't save it properly. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Zargulon 16:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
At least he (formerly she) had a good life [3] Krakatoa 15:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
I'll restate what I said on the page, which is bound to provoke some idiotic reaction:
OK, I took a chance. It again "messed with" my PC, probably setting up the flash player, and conked out Windows Explorer eventually, but I didn't have to reboot, so hopefully everything's peachy. I did get to watch it all the way through, and it's a fascinating video. It gives a realistic sense of what it was like to be in that little bitty capsule, tens of thousands of miles from the earth. This could easily go on the Apollo page itself. The hoax commentary should be good for a laugh, as it's a fairy tale. Also, Bubba73 please note, in looking closely at the timestamps, I observed that it's 198, not 190. It's a little fuzzy, but on the first card you can see the difference between the 8 and the 0. It's a little more distinct on the other two cards. The three timestamps given are:
Day 198, leading up to midnight, would be July 17th, the second day of the mission, which they confirm at one point by zooming in on the mission clock, which is at 34 hours and 16 minutes at that point. Everything in this video squares with the conventional Apollo saga. Wahkeenah 05:51, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
But I need to check the readout on their clock in the video to confirm. The DVD is available from SpaceCraft films. It is at Amazon. It is fairly expensive - you can find it a little cheaper. Or you could rent it or see if the library has it. DVD #1 has stuff through the landing, including the three TV transmissions. DVD 2 has the entire moonwalk, but in the form we saw it in originally - not the missin slow-scan version. Disc 3 covers the return trip and has bonus stuff. All TV transmissions and all film is included. At one point, you can watch the flag not waving in a continuous shot of about a half hour. Bubba73 (talk), 03:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Them French words is tough to spell sometimes. Just don't pronounce it the way Bugs Bunny does: "ren-deez-vooz". I was also wondering if an argument would ensue over that issue, but I expected it to be on some kind of technical grounds, not the lame argument that the Russians "can call it whatever they want to", like Humpty Dumpty. One other thing that's unclear, though maybe not terribly important, is whether those craft got to within 5 miles or 5 kilometers of each other. I've seen it both ways. Either way, it's not much of a rendezvous, although getting the craft in the same orbit was itself an achievement of sorts. And lost in all this is the reason for doing a rendezvous, which is to get close enough to dock, a vital maneuver to moon missions and beyond; not just to wave "dosvedanya" at each other as they go by. I wonder when the first real Russian spacecraft rendezvous occurred. Maybe if that could be determined (if it isn't already there - sorry for being lazy) then it would be worth mentioning somewhere in there. Wahkeenah 02:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
In fact, I'm thinking that since it's a list of firsts, and since there were effectively only two "teams" in the race, maybe the first time each accomplished a particular task could be included, for perspective and comparison: first Russian simultaneous orbit; first American simultaneous orbit AND maneuvering for close approach; first Russian maneuvering for close approach; etc. Wahkeenah 02:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Due to the pecularities of celestial mechanics the Soviets would have been able to launch a lunar spacecraft two weeks before the 'launch window' opened in the US. The L1 cosmonauts did send a letter to the Politburo asking for permission to launch a manned mission. They even travelled to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in order to be ready to fly at a short notice. But the order never came and two weeks later, Apollo 8...
Bubba73 (talk), 20:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Bubba, now that disruption has a week off, would you like to join Hob, Mike, and me and perhaps Karl on the CSICOP talk page to finish making agreed upon changes to the CSICOP article? Askolnick 04:46, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Kudos. I just saw your message and have not yet seen whatever he was up to during the last 4 or 5 hours. I'm guessing he might not have liked being suggested to be a sockpuppet, but it all looks rather suspicious when a guy has been on the system for months and devotes himself to a single article. Wahkeenah 17:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I have taken your adivce and introduced myself on the talk page, and have explained where I want the statements. We can move on without that editor. Wikipedia's False Prophet holla at me Improve Me 16:06, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Given that Carfiend is the one at odds with most everyone else, I think he should lead off and make his case. Presumably it's got to do with (1) quibbling over the term "rendezvous" and potentially (2) listing the Moon Hoax page as a cross-link (which, if he gets carried away, he could end up doing on every space-program-related page). I also expect him to post his usual complaints about "reverting or changing without discussion", which of course he does himself all the time. Wahkeenah 16:44, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Or you could. Meanwhile, yet another new (?) user has arrived on the Moon hoax page claiming it's too heavily weighted against the hoax. Here we go again. Wahkeenah 17:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't know why I persist in falling into Carfiend's little game all the time. He is clearly just a troll, a troublemaker, who enjoys all the banter. Usually the solution for these characters is just to ignore them. But he keeps messing with the page, pushing the buttons. I don't know what to do at this point, except maybe take a vacation. >:( Wahkeenah 00:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Oops, I think I stretched the "pravda" a bit. That one guy didn't explicitly say that, it's just that the first mention of any rendezvous in his writeup is with Gemini. He actually kind of skirted the issue of the "first" rendezvous, either intentionally (as face-saving) or by mistake or whatever. I would certainly be interested to see what other Russian historians have to say about it. But Canfield's constant bickering over that term is just part of the game he's playing. Wahkeenah 09:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I agree it can go away from the Achievements list. I'm just wondering what happened to Carfiend. He got shown up pretty badly, and maybe the fun's over for him, but you never know, he could be lurking. I notice nobody has done much with the Hoax article lately. It has been kind of exhausting. Maybe this weekend. We need to get some consensus on the layout so we can hopefully get rid of the NPOV tag on that article as well. It reads kind of like an article designed by a committee of opposing sides. Wahkeenah 02:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Bubba73! Although I am usually very skeptical of skeptics :-) I liked your article about King and pawn versus king. Thank you for writing it. Ioannes Pragensis 11:03, 19 September 2006 (UTC) |
My tastes are more mundane. My favorite car was my 1966 Ford Fairlane which I got from my dad when the time came. I called it my "Sgt. Joe Friday" car, as it was the car of choice in Dragnet. It would start at 20 below, no problem. I liked it, even though it only got 12 miles per gallon on a good day. I drive a Honda now. :) Wahkeenah 03:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Everything about the chess templates as they can be used now is listed at Template_talk:Chess_diagram as far as I know. If you make some additional graphics for numbers, I don't see why you couldn't use them, however. I say go for it. -- jacobolus (t) 05:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC) [Note: I'm not ever going to look back at this discussion unless prompted by a "you have new messages" message, so won't ordinarily see responses here]
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can i please know how you can promote a pawn to knight in International chess. nids (♂) 18:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
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An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience/Workshop.
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It's been a tad more than "twice": See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Disruptive conduct. KarlBunker 01:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
You wrote "Obvious pseudoscience 15) Theories which, while purporting to be scientific, are obviously bogus, such as Time Cube, may be so labeled and categorized as such without more." Is that sentence complete? Bubba73 (talk), 20:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chess#Links to chessworld.net - you are welcomed to contribute. Greetings, -- Ioannes Pragensis 17:07, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Well, after talking with you on this subject, I've decided that it might be worth discussing the Ruy Lopez on its own article, because of the Chess Openings it seems to be both a keepable article, but it, and all of its daughter articles just seem too much in the way of technicality. I can accept the one, but so many others? Something might be wrong. In fact, some of them seem to be close duplicates, like Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense. I don't know that I know the subject well enough to be sure though, so I figure it would be worth specfically discussing it. FrozenPurpleCube
I saw your comment at the Robert Carroll article. The same person put the same thing on Skeptic's Dictionary. Bubba73 (talk), 00:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Bubba73, I moved the disputed paragraph to the talk page per WP:V, please see my comments there. - THB 01:11, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi and thank you for the message and for your work on the article. The question of length of the article: I discussed it with the FAR guys here Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Chess and they told me that we have plenty of space :-) Greetings -- Ioannes Pragensis 08:08, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi again, Bubba, I rewrote the intro - could you please read it CAREFULLY after me? My English is horrible :-( Thank you! -- Ioannes Pragensis 21:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Bubba. I don't object to you putting the symbols in. All I saw was the change in formatting. Please feel free to put the symbols back in. - Richardcavell 04:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi there - I've re-inserted the original photo later in the article, which seems to work quite well. That photo also appears in the World Championship (history section) - so I was keen to inject some variety with the new previously unused photo. Brittle heaven 16:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Your input is urgently needed on a spurious AfD [5]. -- Fyslee 22:06, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi again, Bubba73! Please, did you checked the description of the place of birth of chess in the book? Was it really Italy? Thanks, -- Ioannes Pragensis 20:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Bubba73, there are still commentaries and questions in the text of the chess article, esp. in the History part. (They are visible only in the edit mode, in the <!-- --> tags.) Could you please clear it with help of your excellent books and your knowledge of English? Thanks,-- Ioannes Pragensis 23:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi again! PLease rethink once more the sentence "Computers also enabled the quick growth of popularity of online chess with started with the growth of the Internet starting in the mid 1990s." - it contains 2 x "growth" and 2 x "start" - it does not sound well. Thanks, -- Ioannes Pragensis 20:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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For rewriting Chess from a poor "brilliant prose promotion" to a featured article, helping retain its star on review, I award you The Editor’s Barnstar. Nice job, excellent effort, and thankless work! Sandy ( Talk) 02:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC) |
Now it seems to me that there is perhaps too much stuff about the old shatranj rules there... Merry Christmas! -- Ioannes Pragensis 11:45, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bubba73,
Admittedly the citation documentation is less than clear. I was sure I read it somewhere, but it took me some time to find it again. Here is a link that claims that The following templates are deprecated. But I may have misinterpreted something, because as said I find it all less than clear. Thanks for bringing the issue up, if you want to respond please leave a note at my talk page. Sander123 16:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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It seems the two of us have been doing most of the recent work on the endgame tablebase article. I am too inexperienced to do some of the more complicated formatting, so thanks for that.
I want to call your attention to the section on endgame tablebases in the article on computer chess. In some places it contradicts or is redundant with the main article on tablebases. I'm not sure what to do about it, so I'm asking you to take a look.
Also, I modified the diagram formatting again. I think it's good now.
Best regards, YechielMan 06:31, 4 October 2006 (UTC).
At the top right of Georgia (U.S. state) there is a link to the flag Flag of Georgia which seems that it would take you directly to Flag of Georgia (U.S. state) but instead it goes to the dab page Flag of Georgia. Why doesn't it go to Flag of Georgia (U.S. state)? Bubba73 (talk), 23:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Bubba73, do you have a source for the complete James Randi quote you just added; namely:
My quick search of the JREF website didn't spot it, but I don't trust its search engine. Nor did I find it through Google. I see that an anonymous editor (you, I presume) just updated Rawlins' version in the Wikiquote article on Randi. I'd like to source the full quotation so we can demonstrate both the actual quote and how it's misused, which is one of the benefits of WQ's sourcing practices. Thanks for any help you can provide. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip! I'll look into it. KarlBunker 20:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bubba73/Archive 2 (2006). I noticed you added an entry to Vandalism in Progress. That page is only for very specific cases, as described by the page's guidelines. Your alert would be better placed on Administrator intervention against vandalism ( WP:AIV), where it will usually be processed within minutes. Many alerts that are incorrectly placed on Vandalism in Progress are never dealt with, simply because they become old before an administrator gets to them. Thanks for your efforts. :) -- light darkness ( talk) 01:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Christ that looks like a nightmare. I'm admittedly not very good at cutting through and rewriting stuff like that. I also (unfortunately) don't really know a great deal about Klass unlike my knowledge of Randi. I'll try to weed through some books and find some info on him, though ufology's not really one of my strong foci. However, I can promise to continue monitoring any article that is often subject to vandalism/spurious edits (such as James Randi). If you need any help with specific articles, please let me know or add to Wikipedia:Wikiproject Rational Skepticism/Skeptic watchlists. If you need (or have) any advice, please don't hesitate to contact me. -- Krash ( Talk) 20:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
"The biggest problem is that anyone can edit." :) No harm done.
If you have the time/interest: Glyconutrient. -- Krash ( Talk) 14:09, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
for your generous remarks. Tom Harrison Talk 15:05, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
If you look at my edit history, you'll find that I inhabit a lot of controversial articles about science-related concepts. I haven't yet breached the UFO issue and this is my first forray. I'm trying to take it slow as I am still occupied with a few cosmology and creationist controversies. I do recognize that the other articles are worse, but from a pure advertisement standpoint, I'm sure many more people see the UFO article than the Majestic 12 article, for example. If things improve enough at UFO that the article is actually NPOV and factual, I may move on to those other problems. -- ScienceApologist 18:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate what you did for the Meier article. It needs balance! (And presentational changes.) And I'm just not willing to put in the time needed for it, I'm sorry to say. Phiwum 16:04, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Don't know if I'm doing this correctly. However, an interesting picture, regarding the MJ12 article, and more specifically, the MJ12 documents claiming a certain James Forrestal's (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forrestal) involvment with the organization.
You will find that the below linked picture depicts Mr. Forrestal, among other men, all supposedly once beloning to the organization. (note the organizations name written on the picture)
http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/2471/mj12group2lgqm0.jpg
Thank you.
Now dear Bubba, you seem far too accomplished an experienced a wikipedian to be getting into silly edit wars on a velikovsky article. Please curb your enthusiasm. We don't want this to end in tears :)-- feline1 16:38, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
About the Velikovsky article.....I'm not sure I can be of much use. -- JWSchmidt 03:00, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I don't think I'm going to resubmit it, but I think you should. Could be an interesting article. Have to keep it really factual though.
I plan to make major changes. I posted my offering on the Moon Hoax discussion page, under that title. Let me know. The formatting didn't take in the discussion section, but you will get the jist. I wanted to remove the back and forth bickering of whether "it" happened or not and just get to the basics: What is the Moon Hoax. Nothing else. I would like to trim off the Dead Astronauts section, but I feel I am already making a large change. Let me know what you think. DartFrog 01:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Your help on articles where our paths have crossed has been much appreciated. Thanks a lot, and I'll see you 'round. We'll get that UFO article NPOV yet! -- ScienceApologist 19:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2006-02-10_UFO_topics#Mediator_response
Can you link me up with the article and tell me more about what is needed. [[[User:Simonapro|Simonapro]] 17:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)]
Hejsan Bubba73. Thanks for your referencing of the developments frequently referred to as pseudoscience or pseudoscientific. I have a suggestion for your future supportive efforts. Lilienfeld (2003) is a great book on Science and Pseudoscience in Psychotherapy and includes a lot of interesting stuff. Also, Singer (1996) Crazy Therapies is entertaining (though perhaps troublingly bizarre at times). Lots of scientific studies in both to back it all up. ODIN! Hornyhat Olafsen 03:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
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After seeing your name so often on the Apollo talk page, I finally had to check out your world view.
Hi there. Following up a discussion elsewhere, would you be able to point out something explaining what needs to be done with converting chess diagrams. What are these old and new formats you are referring to? Thanks. Carcharoth 09:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I merged these, and tidied it up - take a look and let me know what you think, For great justice. 23:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Ah, I see the problem. Please understand that Wikipedia has a specific meaning for the word "reliable", which is why I provided the link to the policy page Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Other publications may use whatever sources their editorial boards may deem appropriate, but Wikipedia requires that its sources be, in general, respectable print publications, notable websites, and well-known (and accessible) audiovisual material. The two main reasons are to put the onus of accuracy on publishers with reputations to uphold, and to make it possible for Wikipedians to verify the supposed content of the sources.
Because of this, personal communications are not valid primary sources, although they can be cited if a secondary source (like a magazine or news program) mention them, but in those cases the secondary source is what legitimizes it. I was expecting that there might be some mention in Swift, which qualifies as a notable website. (Note too that discussion boards, even when they belong to notable websites, are not usually considered reliable, as their content is not approved in advance by an editorial board. Thus, the digression on the legitimacy of Randi's response to Kolodzey is likely to be edited out over time, as it's sourced from the JREF Forum.)
By these rules, Randi's quote, "I always have an out — I'm right!", in whatever form, probably should be removed. I'd added it (or readded it, I guess) when I decided to make the "Criticism" section less like one person's crusade against Randi and more like general criticism with cited examples. It's unfortunate that this concise example doesn't appear to have a reliable source, either for its original (mis)use or Randi's response. Unless we can source it properly, it should go. If the "POV-pushers" put it back in, we should treat it as any other unsourced material and re-delete. (Such vigilance is an unfortunate but necessary part of Wikipedia article maintenance.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:59, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi
Bubba with regards to Philip Klass, Green Fireballs, Roswell Incident, Majestic 12, and Unidentified Flying Object, if you could take the time out to come up with a list of stuff I can go through each one, point and point and see if it violates wiki policy or if anything else can be done to improve the article. I have already visited some of the articles and ask for a proper referencing to take place. I have set up the standard for them to use. ( Simonapro 07:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC))
I listed it because Image:Ga1879.svg is a better version. - Reuvenk T C E 06:57, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
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We are discussing the references to Williams on the pseudoscience page; perhaps you'd like to have a look. In particular, do you know Williams' academic credentials? Hgilbert 20:19, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. You might be interested in participating in new Wikipedia:WikiProject Contract bridge. Regards, Duja 10:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bubba, thanks for you good comments on talk:Natasha Demkina However, would you please also indicate your "vote" by adding either:
or
for each of the four proposed "sources." Many thanks, Andrew Askolnick 17:12, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Not important, since no one ever said that the source is not reputable. That's why most people haven't voted. It's entirely unnecessary (in not downright inappropriate). Thanks for adding your vote. Askolnick 04:05, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I never knew it was possible to add all that stuff about playing chess, liking chocolate, being a father, being a skeptic and so forth. I'm with you on all of those. Loved the Asimov quote. Not with you on the Country/Western thing, but your line made me chuckle. A friend of mine who moved from Chicago to Texas had used that line with me ("We've got all kinds of music here. Country AND Western."). I gather that neither he nor you originated that line. Keep up your good work on the chess articles. Krakatoa 17:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
You suggested that people contact you if something was up for a vote at Talk:Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. I've just added a call for vote/comment on a comparison of two edit versions of the article, and I'd appreciate your input. Thanks! KarlBunker 14:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
As a result of you asking for mediation on the article Unidentified flying object I helped the community to push more heavily for WP:CITE and WP:NOR. The article has increased its use of wikipolicy and this should help things more. Good Luck. ( Simonapro 16:02, 13 August 2006 (UTC))
I see that even you, of the normally calm demeanor, are beginning to get riled at that guy. The banter is one thing, but his constant hatchet-job on that page is getting annoying... and to bring some guy, whom we never heard from on that page before, to semi-protect it, really makes us wonder. Wahkeenah 01:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Maybe they should have brought along a newspaper to show off on the Moon... or a draft of Kaysing's book, so they could read aloud, from the surface of the Moon, about how this wasn't really happening. Wahkeenah 01:21, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I've posted it. [ [1]] and [ [2]].
I suspect that Noodleboy is ready to "take over" the gadfly role, if he decides to devote as much time to the page as you and I and Carfiend have. In fact, he was on there awhile back, rabble-rousing, and then disappeared for awhile. Neither one, however, is as obnoxious as For Great Justice was. Reading what I just wrote, I'm thinking I've been involved in this way too long. I'm kind of excited about them looking for the tapes, though, not just for the possible additional info it could uncover, but also because it might mean a serious attempt at returning to the moon... which would squelch this bizarre conspiracy theory once and for all (unless it's true, of course. Right.) Wahkeenah 21:16, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
The contradict was a mistake, sorry. I thought I'd reverted myself but clearly I didn't save it properly. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Zargulon 16:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
At least he (formerly she) had a good life [3] Krakatoa 15:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
I'll restate what I said on the page, which is bound to provoke some idiotic reaction:
OK, I took a chance. It again "messed with" my PC, probably setting up the flash player, and conked out Windows Explorer eventually, but I didn't have to reboot, so hopefully everything's peachy. I did get to watch it all the way through, and it's a fascinating video. It gives a realistic sense of what it was like to be in that little bitty capsule, tens of thousands of miles from the earth. This could easily go on the Apollo page itself. The hoax commentary should be good for a laugh, as it's a fairy tale. Also, Bubba73 please note, in looking closely at the timestamps, I observed that it's 198, not 190. It's a little fuzzy, but on the first card you can see the difference between the 8 and the 0. It's a little more distinct on the other two cards. The three timestamps given are:
Day 198, leading up to midnight, would be July 17th, the second day of the mission, which they confirm at one point by zooming in on the mission clock, which is at 34 hours and 16 minutes at that point. Everything in this video squares with the conventional Apollo saga. Wahkeenah 05:51, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
But I need to check the readout on their clock in the video to confirm. The DVD is available from SpaceCraft films. It is at Amazon. It is fairly expensive - you can find it a little cheaper. Or you could rent it or see if the library has it. DVD #1 has stuff through the landing, including the three TV transmissions. DVD 2 has the entire moonwalk, but in the form we saw it in originally - not the missin slow-scan version. Disc 3 covers the return trip and has bonus stuff. All TV transmissions and all film is included. At one point, you can watch the flag not waving in a continuous shot of about a half hour. Bubba73 (talk), 03:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Them French words is tough to spell sometimes. Just don't pronounce it the way Bugs Bunny does: "ren-deez-vooz". I was also wondering if an argument would ensue over that issue, but I expected it to be on some kind of technical grounds, not the lame argument that the Russians "can call it whatever they want to", like Humpty Dumpty. One other thing that's unclear, though maybe not terribly important, is whether those craft got to within 5 miles or 5 kilometers of each other. I've seen it both ways. Either way, it's not much of a rendezvous, although getting the craft in the same orbit was itself an achievement of sorts. And lost in all this is the reason for doing a rendezvous, which is to get close enough to dock, a vital maneuver to moon missions and beyond; not just to wave "dosvedanya" at each other as they go by. I wonder when the first real Russian spacecraft rendezvous occurred. Maybe if that could be determined (if it isn't already there - sorry for being lazy) then it would be worth mentioning somewhere in there. Wahkeenah 02:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
In fact, I'm thinking that since it's a list of firsts, and since there were effectively only two "teams" in the race, maybe the first time each accomplished a particular task could be included, for perspective and comparison: first Russian simultaneous orbit; first American simultaneous orbit AND maneuvering for close approach; first Russian maneuvering for close approach; etc. Wahkeenah 02:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Due to the pecularities of celestial mechanics the Soviets would have been able to launch a lunar spacecraft two weeks before the 'launch window' opened in the US. The L1 cosmonauts did send a letter to the Politburo asking for permission to launch a manned mission. They even travelled to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in order to be ready to fly at a short notice. But the order never came and two weeks later, Apollo 8...
Bubba73 (talk), 20:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Bubba, now that disruption has a week off, would you like to join Hob, Mike, and me and perhaps Karl on the CSICOP talk page to finish making agreed upon changes to the CSICOP article? Askolnick 04:46, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Kudos. I just saw your message and have not yet seen whatever he was up to during the last 4 or 5 hours. I'm guessing he might not have liked being suggested to be a sockpuppet, but it all looks rather suspicious when a guy has been on the system for months and devotes himself to a single article. Wahkeenah 17:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I have taken your adivce and introduced myself on the talk page, and have explained where I want the statements. We can move on without that editor. Wikipedia's False Prophet holla at me Improve Me 16:06, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Given that Carfiend is the one at odds with most everyone else, I think he should lead off and make his case. Presumably it's got to do with (1) quibbling over the term "rendezvous" and potentially (2) listing the Moon Hoax page as a cross-link (which, if he gets carried away, he could end up doing on every space-program-related page). I also expect him to post his usual complaints about "reverting or changing without discussion", which of course he does himself all the time. Wahkeenah 16:44, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Or you could. Meanwhile, yet another new (?) user has arrived on the Moon hoax page claiming it's too heavily weighted against the hoax. Here we go again. Wahkeenah 17:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't know why I persist in falling into Carfiend's little game all the time. He is clearly just a troll, a troublemaker, who enjoys all the banter. Usually the solution for these characters is just to ignore them. But he keeps messing with the page, pushing the buttons. I don't know what to do at this point, except maybe take a vacation. >:( Wahkeenah 00:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Oops, I think I stretched the "pravda" a bit. That one guy didn't explicitly say that, it's just that the first mention of any rendezvous in his writeup is with Gemini. He actually kind of skirted the issue of the "first" rendezvous, either intentionally (as face-saving) or by mistake or whatever. I would certainly be interested to see what other Russian historians have to say about it. But Canfield's constant bickering over that term is just part of the game he's playing. Wahkeenah 09:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I agree it can go away from the Achievements list. I'm just wondering what happened to Carfiend. He got shown up pretty badly, and maybe the fun's over for him, but you never know, he could be lurking. I notice nobody has done much with the Hoax article lately. It has been kind of exhausting. Maybe this weekend. We need to get some consensus on the layout so we can hopefully get rid of the NPOV tag on that article as well. It reads kind of like an article designed by a committee of opposing sides. Wahkeenah 02:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Bubba73! Although I am usually very skeptical of skeptics :-) I liked your article about King and pawn versus king. Thank you for writing it. Ioannes Pragensis 11:03, 19 September 2006 (UTC) |
My tastes are more mundane. My favorite car was my 1966 Ford Fairlane which I got from my dad when the time came. I called it my "Sgt. Joe Friday" car, as it was the car of choice in Dragnet. It would start at 20 below, no problem. I liked it, even though it only got 12 miles per gallon on a good day. I drive a Honda now. :) Wahkeenah 03:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Everything about the chess templates as they can be used now is listed at Template_talk:Chess_diagram as far as I know. If you make some additional graphics for numbers, I don't see why you couldn't use them, however. I say go for it. -- jacobolus (t) 05:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC) [Note: I'm not ever going to look back at this discussion unless prompted by a "you have new messages" message, so won't ordinarily see responses here]
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can i please know how you can promote a pawn to knight in International chess. nids (♂) 18:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
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It's been a tad more than "twice": See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Disruptive conduct. KarlBunker 01:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
You wrote "Obvious pseudoscience 15) Theories which, while purporting to be scientific, are obviously bogus, such as Time Cube, may be so labeled and categorized as such without more." Is that sentence complete? Bubba73 (talk), 20:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chess#Links to chessworld.net - you are welcomed to contribute. Greetings, -- Ioannes Pragensis 17:07, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Well, after talking with you on this subject, I've decided that it might be worth discussing the Ruy Lopez on its own article, because of the Chess Openings it seems to be both a keepable article, but it, and all of its daughter articles just seem too much in the way of technicality. I can accept the one, but so many others? Something might be wrong. In fact, some of them seem to be close duplicates, like Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense. I don't know that I know the subject well enough to be sure though, so I figure it would be worth specfically discussing it. FrozenPurpleCube
I saw your comment at the Robert Carroll article. The same person put the same thing on Skeptic's Dictionary. Bubba73 (talk), 00:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Bubba73, I moved the disputed paragraph to the talk page per WP:V, please see my comments there. - THB 01:11, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi and thank you for the message and for your work on the article. The question of length of the article: I discussed it with the FAR guys here Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Chess and they told me that we have plenty of space :-) Greetings -- Ioannes Pragensis 08:08, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi again, Bubba, I rewrote the intro - could you please read it CAREFULLY after me? My English is horrible :-( Thank you! -- Ioannes Pragensis 21:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Bubba. I don't object to you putting the symbols in. All I saw was the change in formatting. Please feel free to put the symbols back in. - Richardcavell 04:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi there - I've re-inserted the original photo later in the article, which seems to work quite well. That photo also appears in the World Championship (history section) - so I was keen to inject some variety with the new previously unused photo. Brittle heaven 16:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Your input is urgently needed on a spurious AfD [5]. -- Fyslee 22:06, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi again, Bubba73! Please, did you checked the description of the place of birth of chess in the book? Was it really Italy? Thanks, -- Ioannes Pragensis 20:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Bubba73, there are still commentaries and questions in the text of the chess article, esp. in the History part. (They are visible only in the edit mode, in the <!-- --> tags.) Could you please clear it with help of your excellent books and your knowledge of English? Thanks,-- Ioannes Pragensis 23:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi again! PLease rethink once more the sentence "Computers also enabled the quick growth of popularity of online chess with started with the growth of the Internet starting in the mid 1990s." - it contains 2 x "growth" and 2 x "start" - it does not sound well. Thanks, -- Ioannes Pragensis 20:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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For rewriting Chess from a poor "brilliant prose promotion" to a featured article, helping retain its star on review, I award you The Editor’s Barnstar. Nice job, excellent effort, and thankless work! Sandy ( Talk) 02:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC) |
Now it seems to me that there is perhaps too much stuff about the old shatranj rules there... Merry Christmas! -- Ioannes Pragensis 11:45, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bubba73,
Admittedly the citation documentation is less than clear. I was sure I read it somewhere, but it took me some time to find it again. Here is a link that claims that The following templates are deprecated. But I may have misinterpreted something, because as said I find it all less than clear. Thanks for bringing the issue up, if you want to respond please leave a note at my talk page. Sander123 16:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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