Howdy, I backed out your recent change to Endomorphism because it violated a few guidelines for wikipedia, WP:EXT and WP:COI. Roughly speaking, you should avoid adding links to external sites and avoid adding information about yourself or your friends.
Definitely do not link to external sites related to you personally, WP:EXT#Advertising and conflicts of interest.
You probably want to fix Lyapunov exponent as well -- perhaps just keep the mention of XScreenSaver, as an indication that Lyapunov exponents (or logistic equation, or chaos, or fractals) impact popular culture, such as screensavers.
Your User:Doctorfree/Campbell article seem good so far; it could probably be moved to the main article namespace already. You may want to include in the opening a clear assertion of notability ( WP:N), but the article seems well referenced, and wikilinked, so it may not matter. JackSchmidt ( talk) 03:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Very interesting collection of subjects in one brain, keep writing. Stratford LeoBC ( talk) 17:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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I see that you've added a notability tag to the article on Deth Specula. I cited references from the New York Times, Newsweek, MediaCast, and other 3rd parties establishing notability. Specifically, the first live music concert with audio and video broadcast over the Internet. This, to me, seems to satisfy both the notability and citation requirements. Could you provide me with some better understanding of why you feel otherwise or how the article could be improved wrt notability? Ronald Joe Record ( talk) 21:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Howdy, It is fine to move the discussion to the article talk page, but the COI problems are only tangentially related to the endomorphism article. Let someone else add the links if they think they improve the article. I'll only talk about the COI problem here, so I am not talking about the future edits of the endomorphism article, just a general wikipedia thing.
I didn't respond earlier, basically because I cannot seem to respond in an encouraging way. I don't want to discourage you, since it seems like the majority of your edits are improving the encyclopedia. I mostly just hope that you yourself will recognize the conflict of interest.
There are many thousands of dissertations on endomorphisms (and many tens of thousands of journal articles). Many of them happen to be much more relevant than yours to the article, but it would not improve the encyclopedia to link them (except perhaps one or two of historical importance). On the other hand, from those dissertations it may make sense to link to an encyclopedia article on endomorphisms, so one might feel that a two-way link is a good idea. I think however that one is most likely to think this when it is one's own work being linked, and this is the danger of the conflict of interest. Whether you are right or wrong, hopefully it is clear that you are not applying your logic evenly to the entire landscape of endomorphism dissertations, and choosing precisely as many and which dissertations to link as would most benefit the encyclopedia. You might check how many of User:R.e.b.'s papers that user has linked into wikipedia articles, or User:David Eppstein or many of the other notable mathematicians who edit here. Some of their papers are linked of course, but by other editors. Wikipedia is not a vanity press, but if many editors add their own accomplishments to it, it becomes one in the eyes of the world. Notice that it does not matter if the editors themselves viewed wikipedia as a vanity press at the time. The opinion is formed elsewhere, and degrades the work of everyone who contributes. It does not matter whether those edits may have been objectively worthwhile, only that they present wikipedia as a sea of autobiography and self-promotion. JackSchmidt ( talk) 14:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding Santa Cruz, California, the wiki that would need to be added to Interwiki is http://www.scruzwiki.org/, not wikispot. — X S G 01:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
OK, I just noticed your full signature and why this just might have some bearing on the discussion at hand...-- NapoliRoma ( talk) 17:20, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Baby Got Back. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 14:06, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hiya! Your change yesterday, removing the information about their performance on the charts, was incorrect. Your edit summary indicated that the detail pertained to The Joint Chiefs. It did not. Please consult the linked citation if you have any further confusion about that point, as it states clearly which band the point pertains to. I'm putting it back. Cheers. duff 04:18, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Doctor Free, I read your input across at the Rupert Sheldrake talk page, and I'm sorry that your proposals have met with opposition. When they write that "this is a waste of time" and that "this discussion should be closed", what the tag-team is saying is that "The Magisterium has spoken" and that they will not make even minor concessions. Alas, it's all heretical and pseudoscientific "woo" to them. Here's some background. Regards, Esowteric+ Talk 10:35, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Howdy, I backed out your recent change to Endomorphism because it violated a few guidelines for wikipedia, WP:EXT and WP:COI. Roughly speaking, you should avoid adding links to external sites and avoid adding information about yourself or your friends.
Definitely do not link to external sites related to you personally, WP:EXT#Advertising and conflicts of interest.
You probably want to fix Lyapunov exponent as well -- perhaps just keep the mention of XScreenSaver, as an indication that Lyapunov exponents (or logistic equation, or chaos, or fractals) impact popular culture, such as screensavers.
Your User:Doctorfree/Campbell article seem good so far; it could probably be moved to the main article namespace already. You may want to include in the opening a clear assertion of notability ( WP:N), but the article seems well referenced, and wikilinked, so it may not matter. JackSchmidt ( talk) 03:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Very interesting collection of subjects in one brain, keep writing. Stratford LeoBC ( talk) 17:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Left a message at the Talk:Web desktop. -- Pmedema ( talk) 15:42, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
I see that you've added a notability tag to the article on Deth Specula. I cited references from the New York Times, Newsweek, MediaCast, and other 3rd parties establishing notability. Specifically, the first live music concert with audio and video broadcast over the Internet. This, to me, seems to satisfy both the notability and citation requirements. Could you provide me with some better understanding of why you feel otherwise or how the article could be improved wrt notability? Ronald Joe Record ( talk) 21:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Howdy, It is fine to move the discussion to the article talk page, but the COI problems are only tangentially related to the endomorphism article. Let someone else add the links if they think they improve the article. I'll only talk about the COI problem here, so I am not talking about the future edits of the endomorphism article, just a general wikipedia thing.
I didn't respond earlier, basically because I cannot seem to respond in an encouraging way. I don't want to discourage you, since it seems like the majority of your edits are improving the encyclopedia. I mostly just hope that you yourself will recognize the conflict of interest.
There are many thousands of dissertations on endomorphisms (and many tens of thousands of journal articles). Many of them happen to be much more relevant than yours to the article, but it would not improve the encyclopedia to link them (except perhaps one or two of historical importance). On the other hand, from those dissertations it may make sense to link to an encyclopedia article on endomorphisms, so one might feel that a two-way link is a good idea. I think however that one is most likely to think this when it is one's own work being linked, and this is the danger of the conflict of interest. Whether you are right or wrong, hopefully it is clear that you are not applying your logic evenly to the entire landscape of endomorphism dissertations, and choosing precisely as many and which dissertations to link as would most benefit the encyclopedia. You might check how many of User:R.e.b.'s papers that user has linked into wikipedia articles, or User:David Eppstein or many of the other notable mathematicians who edit here. Some of their papers are linked of course, but by other editors. Wikipedia is not a vanity press, but if many editors add their own accomplishments to it, it becomes one in the eyes of the world. Notice that it does not matter if the editors themselves viewed wikipedia as a vanity press at the time. The opinion is formed elsewhere, and degrades the work of everyone who contributes. It does not matter whether those edits may have been objectively worthwhile, only that they present wikipedia as a sea of autobiography and self-promotion. JackSchmidt ( talk) 14:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding Santa Cruz, California, the wiki that would need to be added to Interwiki is http://www.scruzwiki.org/, not wikispot. — X S G 01:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
OK, I just noticed your full signature and why this just might have some bearing on the discussion at hand...-- NapoliRoma ( talk) 17:20, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
The Oklahoma Barnstar | ||
Awarded to Doctorfree for contributions to all things Enid, Oklahoma. Kiddo27 ( talk) 21:50, 21 April 2010 (UTC) |
This is the final warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits.
The next time you violate Wikipedia's
no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, you may be
blocked from editing without further notice.
OhNoitsJamie
Talk 13:48, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Baby Got Back. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 14:06, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hiya! Your change yesterday, removing the information about their performance on the charts, was incorrect. Your edit summary indicated that the detail pertained to The Joint Chiefs. It did not. Please consult the linked citation if you have any further confusion about that point, as it states clearly which band the point pertains to. I'm putting it back. Cheers. duff 04:18, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Doctor Free, I read your input across at the Rupert Sheldrake talk page, and I'm sorry that your proposals have met with opposition. When they write that "this is a waste of time" and that "this discussion should be closed", what the tag-team is saying is that "The Magisterium has spoken" and that they will not make even minor concessions. Alas, it's all heretical and pseudoscientific "woo" to them. Here's some background. Regards, Esowteric+ Talk 10:35, 15 January 2020 (UTC)