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Thanks, Ed, for your comments on my user page. I don't know if you followed the arguments that led up to that discussion but I totally agree with your comment re: starting a quarrel about whether someone is quarrelsome. Those guys have knocked it off for the time being but I expect that as soon as I have something to add to one of the pages they have ownership issues with, that the accusations will start again ... sigh. csloat 20:34, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Tag bombing articles [1] that run against your personal bent is not constructive editing, Ed. Why am I not surprised this is exactly what you chose to do after creating that tag? FeloniousMonk 22:24, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Hate to tell you this, but you've killed the formatting of the Jonathan Sarfati article. Don't put carriage returns after references - the Wiki software interprets them as paragraph breaks. Adam Cuerden talk 11:56, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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I just put a bit of Father's speech on my homepage so that whenever anyone wikistalks me it will count as a reading. :-) Steve Dufour 17:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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Good to see [2] -- all too rare around here! Raymond Arritt 19:00, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed - TGGWS ended up protected due to edit warring over "polemic". It was nice and stable until you barged in and changed it. Why exactly do you see yourself as having good reason to overthrow the decision reached in [3]? It really is not at all helpful William M. Connolley 20:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Uncle Ed. User:Blueboar appears confident that the thread you started (and I joined) was not correctly placed on Wikipedia_talk:Attribution/FAQ. I'm not sure that you agree, but if you do, how about if we move that thread here, to your Talk page? Then I would leave a pointer from the original location to here. If this sounds like a bad idea, no need to respond. Thanks. EdJohnston 01:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
A thread was moved here from Wikipedia talk:Attribution/FAQ because User:Blueboar argued that it didn't belong in that department. Though I'm not fully tuned in to where this would belong, I offered to move the thread here and Uncle Ed agreed. Pointer was left in the original location. See [4] for the original location. EdJohnston 02:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Suppose there is a scientific matter which is the object of hot debate (in newspapers, on TV, in political campaigns). One side says that there is a "scientific consensus" in favor of a certain idea which lends primary support to a policy the side is advocating.
How about changing articles and their titles so that they do not state the degree to which the idea enjoys scientific support? In other words, just list scientists and scientific bodies and their positions on the matter. -- Uncle Ed 17:59, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Not in Evolution itself - he said it came up on the talk page. I'm not sure what that means, but I think it's common knowledge that 99.8% of biologists support the theory of evolution. So EdJohnston must be referring to something else. Please don't dismiss our questions. -- Uncle Ed 19:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Here is what other editors said in response:"Tifft’s redshift quantization, as well as other intrinsic redshift theories, are still occasionally cited, though other cosmologists note that Tifft and his results have been nearly totally ignored.[8][9]." (underline is in the original).
Ed, I do not know if you got a chance to watch the entire documentary. You are can find it on YouTube here: The Great Global Warming Swindle [5] Best wishes. RonCram 16:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, there is talk for you on the t:LIA. If you're going to POV-tag it, please try to answer William M. Connolley 20:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed', I modified the intro to this article a little in view of your comment. When you get a chance, have a look and see what you think, ok? Cheers, Wikityke 22:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Try User:HagermanBot/OptOut. Raymond Arritt 15:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Do we know each other from some other forum? Skyemoor 18:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't see any point in editing an article that is owned by an administrator who thinks himself above Wikipedia rules--too much risk given the power differential, and the Skyemoor remark makes me realize that I'm also risking someone writing a false hit piece about my Wikipedia edits given the sensitivity of this particular subject. If you want to navigate the dispute resolution process so that abusive editors are disciplined, I'll add my name and my personal experience. -- TedFrank 21:47, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Please take a look at this Talk page, especially the part on "pseudoscience" and William's reverts. The POV of certain editors is preventing them from objectively dealing with the facts. The concepts involved are not difficult but they do take a little investment of time to understand. You may need to spend some time in the Pseudoscience article to be fully comfortable. I hope you are able to find the time to help out. Thanks! RonCram 14:59, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, I was talking about the editors involved, not the article. People have to be objective in order to rightly consider the facts and the citations. The articles are supposed to present the facts and citations in a balanced and neutral POV, meaning that readers are allowed to go to the sources and make up their own minds. Does that help? RonCram 15:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, by objective I do not mean that editors have no point of view. I do not even think that is possible. I mean only that they are able to see facts for what they are - facts. Unfortunately, instead of acknowledging the facts or seeking to provide mitigating facts of their own to provide balance, some editors simply delete the material because it offends their world view and they do not want readers to have access to these facts. Regarding the similarity between your first edit and Stephan's, it is remarkable. I provided citations initially, but it seems strange to do so because the evidence for the polcies is in the article itself. The article quotes the policies of NSF, Nature and Science journals. The concept of data archiving is new to many editors, including the ones who should know and abide by the policies. Reading the Talk page is most informative on this. The statement that most journals do not enforce the policies was added by William Connelly and is probably true but is OR. William has not attempted to provide a citation. The "weasel words" were written by me. If you can read the article I cited and come up with a better way to say it, it would be welcome. Thanks for contributing! RonCram 15:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, I responded to your comment on my User Talk page. Just giving you a heads up. RonCram 16:04, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, I think it was a little unfair for you to encourage me to explain my arguments in the sandbox and utilize that for testing out new versions of that section there, and then for you to go ahead and butcher the section in the actual article without even trying to modify the version in the sandbox nor to respond to the discussion there. csloat 07:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
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Good grief. You claim to intentionally revert to what you claim is the wrong version? How on earth is that a good faith thing to do? Why would you do that? -- Blue Tie 16:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, for reasons that are unclear, you reverted to a version of the intro that I consider to be stupid, viz Although global warming has occurred in the past, according to the Energy Information Agency, the term is most often used to refer to the warming some scientists predict will occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases. The ref to the EIA is out of place in the intro - there is no reason to pick them out as a source, it looks dumb. Also the sentence is now ambiguous - do you mean the EIA says it has occured in the past; or the EIA says it most often used to, or what? This version is clearly inferior to the one that has been stable for ages and won the article its FA status William M. Connolley 18:10, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[9] William M. Connolley 19:00, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Wer mit Ungeheuern kampft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird.
Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.
And when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
Enjoy... -- Ben TALK/ HIST 19:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I was reported as having violated 3rr Here. This is my first known instance of policy violation. I feel badly about it. No action was taken but I still feel badly about it. I was cited as having reverted you 2007-03-25T13:33:44 here as an unmarked partial rv of [10]. I specifically apologize to you for the error and the angst. Though there was no action taken, I have voluntarily blocked myself from editing wikipedia articles and talk pages for 24 hours from the date that this notice was filed on the 3rr board. -- Blue Tie 13:50, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm on the Independent Institute's mailing list, and they sent me this commentary, which fits your interests more than mine. -- TedFrank 00:54, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, I am trying to get more information to see if it is a Conflict of Intrest violation for an Environmental Activist/ Green Party member to be actavly editing pages that have to do with Environmental issues. Your thoughts?-- Zeeboid 17:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I am enjoying learning from you. -- Blue Tie 19:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
How about "Nothing is better than a perfect life and a ham sandwich is better than nothing ergo a ham sandwich is better than a perfect life"? -- BozMo talk 08:07, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed Poor, can you please inform William of his misbehavior at History of the Yosemite area. He is persistently vandalizing the page by removing a valid {{unreferenced}} template, despite the fact I contacted him and talked about it on the article talk page. He's been persistent and is engaging in an edit war. I can't do this by myself... ~ UBeR 22:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
As one of the users you banned, I was wondering if you had something to add to the Conservapedia page? As a sysop on their site, I'm sure you are uniquely suited to edit the Wikipedia page and look for opportunities to add content. Menkatopia 14:50, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. — David Levy 01:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalise pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. — David Levy 02:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Yep, I got my PhD there in 2001. Phiwum 23:50, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Framing (sociology). - Grumpyyoungman01 14:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
You gave great input some time ago in the JW articles, I was hoping you could help with a comment or more at Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions. It is a content question and a dispassionate POV would help us determine if certain information is OR or not. George 07:26, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I understand. Sorry for the lack of patience. George 01:05, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
You badly messed up my talk page - please be more careful next time. I am aware of your concerns, which is why I am using the talk pages on those articles. However I felt the edits you made were not appropriate according to the general style of the pages. You also need to be more specific with your concerns and what it is you believe you want. John Smith's 17:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed. Do you think this is necessary? -- Guinnog 18:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you have time to discuss this edit where you changed my addition of the word (and link) to USA? My feeling there was that the lead section was not telling non-US people which country the book was written and published in. Do you agree that a reference to USA or American (possibly not linked) in the lead of that article is needed? Some people say that people can find out where Boston is by clicking on the link, but I think that puts too much of a burden on the reader. An article needs to be self-contained up to a point, and key facts need to be presented to the reader, rather than leaving them to go off and find out for themselves. Imagine a reader who didn't know these basic facts - you are expecting them to click every other link to find out the context - which would disrupt their reading of the article. What do you think? Carcharoth 10:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
James I was born Duke of Albany and Duke of Rothesay a year before being crowned King of Scots and Lord of the Isles. In 1603, he was crowned King of England and King of Ireland. In Scotland, he succeeded Mary, Queen of Scots, and in England he succeeded Elizabeth I. He was succeeded by Charles I. Both James and Henry Stuart (Lord Darnley) were Dukes of Albany. The next Duke of Albany after James was Charles. James was Duke of Rothesay from birth as the heir apparent to the Scottish throne, until he became King of Scotland. The previous heir apparent and Duke of Rothesay had been James Stewart, the eldest legitimate son of James V of Scotland. The next Duke of Rothesay after James was Henry Stuart.
James I, King of Great Britain, of the House of Stuart was born Duke of Albany and Duke of Rothesay in 1566, a year before being crowned (as James VI) King of Scots and Lord of the Isles in 1567. Thirty-six years later, in 1603, he was crowned (as James I) King of England and King of Ireland, uniting all three countries in a personal union. In Scotland, he succeeded his mother Mary, Queen of Scots, and in England he succeeded his mother's half-sister Elizabeth I. The personal union as King of Great Britain was continued by his second son and successor, Charles I. Both James and his father Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and King-consort of Scotland, were Dukes of Albany, James from birth until he became King of Scotland a year later, and his father from when he married James's mother, Mary, in 1565 until his murder two years later in 1567 at the age of 21, less than a year after the birth of their son James. The next Duke of Albany after James was James's second son, Charles. James was Duke of Rothesay from birth as the heir apparent to the Scottish throne, until he became King of Scotland. The previous male heir apparent and Duke of Rothesay had been James Stewart, the eldest legitimate son of James's maternal grandfather James V of Scotland (1512-1542). James Stewart died in 1541 just before his first birthday. The next Duke of Rothesay after James was Henry Stuart, James's eldest son who died of typhoid fever at the age of eighteen.
Water. Horses. *sigh* Another failure. Did you come for a discussion, or just to shoot and leave? You missed my main point, which is about the proper place to hit the user with the clue stick. I specifically mentioned the Boston article as the right place to tell users what country it's in, and you pretend that "my logic" dictates removing it from the very place I said users would look for it in. Yet another reason to abandon this madhouse. (I would go read The Inmates Are Running The Asylum, but that's actually a rant about software design.) -- Uncle Ed 14:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Problem solved. Remind not to prod you again. You seem rather irritable! :-) Carcharoth 15:09, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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You seem a bit of a kindred spirit to me vis a vis seeing POV in adjective choice, sentence balance, and placement, as well as believing minority views must have fair, not disparaging or absent mention. Particularly frustrating for me today, but then I read something or other which leads me to your user page and this: "Don't expect too much - Wikipedia is only 6 years old and is about as mature as a schoolboy of the same age. Give it time. Ahh...phewwwww...that feels better. Thank you. That really helped me today. Joevanisland 19:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
You might get a laugh out of this: Betting on global warming :-) Steve Dufour 21:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Uncle Ed. Lest I be continuously accused of canvassing, I just wish to simply inform you of a complaint over an issue I care deeply about, here. I know you have participated in global warming and have had interaction with both myself and said "bureaucrat," and I believe your judgment on this issue will be conducive and fair. Any comments you have are appreciated. Thank you. ~ UBeR 01:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I have noticed your editor reviewi n the back log. To get other editors to review you, you need to put the entry of your page on Wikipedia:Editor review main page. AQu01rius ( User • Talk) 18:14, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I wonder: Am I the only one at Wikipedia to have a personal award named after him?
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Do you want to perhaps leave some comments on the talk page explaining why its POV? Just because we have to remain neutral doesn't mean we have to give equal weight to widely discredited accusations of forgery. Sabine's Sunbird talk 23:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I just came over to get some info on the author of Rogue Warrior, but there were so many mistakes in the Dick Marcinko article that I got distracted. What kind of a reference forces you to correct it before you use it? -- Uncle Ed 21:57, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for helping with the clean-up on the Marcinko article! Mike Searson 00:03, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hello. While going through Category:Inactive WikiProjects I ran across the page Wikipedia:WikiProject quality, which you created in October 2005. The page has been inactive since then and, to me, looks more like an essay than a WikiProject. Would you mind {{ db-author}}ing, userfying it, or letting me know if I have missed something? Thanks, Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:13, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
If Conservapedia is conservative, why does it not allow the use of the word "fag"? While I admit Wikipedia is liberal, Conservapedia is ten times as liberal. Any truly consevrative website would encourage homophobia and the use of homophobic slurs, so the site is very liberal. Clavern 02:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
That comes across as ignorant. StaticElectric 22:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. As you userfied that page, perhaps you will also want to userfy Wikipedia:Quality. It is currently a redirect to the deleted page, but there are numerous versions you can revert to. Cheers, Black Falcon ( Talk) 17:07, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Bittersweet YouTube video Wiki-Man. -- Uncle Ed 22:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
I think [12] is a bit of a give-away William M. Connolley 09:18, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Sorry Ed, but I feel obliged to tease you... when even Conservatopedia reverts you with rm silly anti-IPCC diatribe you really *must* be in trouble :-) William M. Connolley 08:42, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I regard your refusal as a tacit admission that the anthropogenic global warming theory is pseudoscience. There's not even an article explaining what the theory *IS*, let alone showing evidence for it or explaining how it could be falsified.
If your argument in favor of AGW had any credibility, you wouldn't be changing the subject. True science works not be distracting people when they mount challenges, but by sharing evidence and inviting other scientists to replicate your work. -- Uncle Ed 14:54, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello Ed Poor! I saw somewhere saying you work for the New World Encyclopedia. That one looks pretty decent. Just a question, when it's launched, who can edit there? Regards. Wooyi Talk to me? 21:08, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. Did you receive my e-mail of May 8th and are you in a position to move ahead with the planning? I'd be glad to help as well. Regards, Newyorkbrad 22:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
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:). Glad to see you might be back around - your insight and ability will always be a benefit to the Committee, and it'll be much stronger if you decide you can take a case here and there :). Daniel 09:14, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Sir, regarding your aticle, how do we know this here, the present, is not a hallucination? Observe the continuity or lack thereof, you say? I say this works in the long term but owing that one does not necessarily know at any given point in time that they are hallucinating there is no way to know whether the observation of continuity itself is not a (arguably boring) hallucination. I would also posit that it is impossible for an individual to prove via logic proof that they are not hallucinating at any given time, since at any point in the discourse, one could hallucinate that an assertion makes sense. ~ Infrangible 02:59, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Really now Ed, the contextless quote you tacked in was from a source discussing consensus science not scientific consensus. Or don't you know the difference? Vsmith 00:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
In case it dropped off your watchlist, some discussion eventually took place at Portal talk:Middle-earth/Random-article in response to your question. Carcharoth 21:50, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Never mind there must have been an error with the page, or perhaps something I was doing that was wrong. Thanks anyway. þ
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Hi there Ed, I was wondering if you could look at the way the article Potter's House Christian Fellowship is being edited. Darrenss is a disgrutled former member and shows obvious bias if you veiw his history. He also attacks any site associated with the group deleting key links and nominating pages for deletion. I was wondering if you could check it out to see if yhe can be blocked or the articles made to be more 'neutral' and not hate pages, if you have time of course. Thanks. 124.184.131.250 11:10, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw you contributed to
British Mandate for Palestine. Could you give your mind for a title issue between Palestine and British Mandate for Palestine
here.
Thank you in advance !
Regards,
Alithien
18:53, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Did you read my Definition of Palestine and Palestinian? The terms are not equivalent at all. Palestine is a region, but it's also a "country" or "nation" in the making, intended to reduce or absorb Israel's territory.
Also, it's often unclear what "Palestinian" means. Is it a resident of Palestine (region), such as the pre-1967 Palestinian Jews? Is it a non-Jewish resident of Israel? Any resident of Gaza or West Bank, or just non-Jewish ones? Does it include Arabs in other lands (e.g., Jordan) who want to "return"?
It would be simpler if newspapers and other media would say "PA citizen" or "Arab" when speaking of political or ethnic identity. But the whole issue of who is a "Palestinian" and what this means is caught up in a tangle of ethnicity and nationalism.
Please don't ask me to make this any simpler. -- Uncle Ed 18:31, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
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Back on 2 August 2006, you added {{ POV-section}} to Operation Accountability#Outcome. You didn't drop a note on the talk page. Can you put one there to indicate what the concern is? GRBerry 21:16, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
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Here's something interesting for you (I hope): AND wikipedia project
What do you think about? :-)
(PS: I picked you up just as the first one of the project members list!)
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The Intelligent design article received heavy editing today by new/unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee ( Talk) 07:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words on my talk page. I am mulling over an example for scientific method which is not natural science-oriented to demonstrate that it is not restricted to the traditional topics in scientific method. One example which occurs to me is from economics. For example, the Chicago RTA is currently playing a game of 'chicken' with the state, to see who blinks first. I need to ask some urban planners their thoughts, but briefly my idea is to state the RTA mess right now, list some options for action based on the perceived policy for the City of Chicago, and come up with a prediction. It's not really original research because urban policy has to serve the inhabitants of the city. I do not think that would be disputed. Therefore the prediction ought to be that some state agency will provide a way to guarantee a bond which underwrites additional funds for transportation infrastructure in Chicago. The prediction does not have to answer when.
Sample:
Step 4 (at least the first part) was in yesterday's Chicago Tribune headline which I picked up today at the Tollway Oasis after visiting my daughters: "RTA digs itself into deeper hole". So all that is needed is the demonstration of political support, and I can add this to the article as a concrete example. The essential point is that no one knows the answer right now; it's a conundrum, hence suitable for scientific method. -- Ancheta Wis 02:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand why you reverted my change here. Your comment of rvv is puzzling. Did you mean "revert vandalism"? I thought it was against the customs here to label a change which you disagree with editorially as "vandalism". -- Uncle Ed 03:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
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Was I blocked? I wonder what it was for ... -- Uncle Ed 22:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
If I were a suspicious man, I would think it was retribution for blocking someone on another wiki. But since I'm not suspicious I assume it was a glitch caused by my IP skipping around on wi-fi.
Hey, how come wi-fi doesn't rhyme with wiki? :-) -- Uncle Ed 22:18, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I just read your user page and saw you were on probation. Why don't you just create a new identity so you don't have this hanging around your neck? Traicao 05:01, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
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The agenda for the next meetup includes the formation of a Wikimedia New York City local chapter. Hope to see you there!-- Pharos 20:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry that I did not see your reversion of an addition I had made to the asbestos article, to wit
I can move the first of the two references to just behind the word RAND if that would make the reference clearer, however the source is RAND directly. The link for the sample 10-Q should lead to a public filings by Enpro, so I changed the FN reference slightly and changed 'some' to 'at least one'
That would produce:
This look ok to you? Bob Herrick 22:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I would appreciate your input. There seems to be an editor who feels it is his/her perogative to completely control the WSI article. He is even edit warring on the talk page.-- JobsElihu 00:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
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I've started a stub on the above today. I was rather surprised that there was no article on it until today.
Dear Ed Poor,
I am trying to recruit participants to my PhD research project, tackling 'The Politics of Genetics and Reproductive Technology'. I noticed your contributions towards the article on Biology and sexual orientation and I wondered if you'd like to participate? I believe you will be able to make a valuable contribution. Before you decide, you should be aware of what this involves. I am inviting you to contribute towards a (password protected) "research wiki". This will be used because I'm interested to see how differing attitudes to the subject interact with each other, and I want to evaluate the potential for consensus in this area. I think the wiki is extremely useful in this context. It involves collaboration and sharing ideas amongst a group, and therefore it could help shed a light on especially contentious issues or areas of potential agreement. The wiki will be in operation for a number of months and I am interested in all sorts of contributions. For further information please see this link.
If you are interested, you will find my contact details on my userpage. Feel free to get in touch should you have any questions. Your valuable contribution would be much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Nicholas 19:44, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Just thought you would want to know that Wikipedia:WikiProject Past Political Scandals and Controversies has been created. It will take it awhile to get it running. Feel free to jump in and help out. Remember 20:10, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Ed, I liked the additions you made to Mendel re the alleged faking of his data. What was FM's objection to this addtion other than it was you that added it? Do you think he actually read the content before reverting? I'd be game for adding it back but we need to reference it better. For example do you have the full citation for Box 1978? David D. (Talk) 15:59, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes I thought the edits were good also. Massachew 17:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello Ed - Earlier in the year you assisted with the Dental Amalgam Controversy page, and I just recently noticed (discoverd!) my User Talk page, and the message you'd posted there (thank you) - so I've at last got round to replying! Wanted to check you knew I'd replied. Anyway, regarding the above-mentioned article, it's now November, and I made a suggestion for the article back in February which still no one has either accepted or rejected. Incredible! Although I'm a Wiki neophyte, still that seems a mighty long time to wait for a consensus from other Wiki editors on my suggested addition!
Do you think this is exceptional, or does it happen often in Wikipedia that a proposed addition to a controversial article ends up waiting in limbo for 10 months while the article was frozen during most of that time... and still no response from anyone about my suggestion? And it's not even that my suggested addition is controversial, because I don't think it is. In fact, it's a rather conservative statement (and well-referenced), and no one in these ten months has expressed any criticism of it. So I'm thinking of just posting it in the article itself. However, the last time I tried to post small additions like this, they were reverted 4 or 5 times in a row, and without any explanation or discussion from the editors that were doing the reversions. So I have a suspicion that despite this ten-month silence, nonetheless my addition could well be simply reverted - in silence! - as last time!
Perhaps my fears are unjustified. But based on my past experience from last time, this almost seems like an abuse of the Wikipedia system when that kind of thing happens - as you can see: this is the result - a well-meaning contributor like me, who is trying as best as he can to write balanced and well-referenced statements to contribute to the community encyclopedia effort - and due to the apparently abusive behaviour of certain others, his contributions are either reverted or ignored for ten months, without even any discussion (note: I'm not saying that the neglect is abusive in itself, it was the repetitive reversions with no discussion that were abusive at the time, then followed by ten months of silence). I don't even know who, if anyone, I should complain to on Wikipedia about this situation/behaviour. But at the very least, I don't think this is true to the friendly Wiki community spirit, and certainly this type of behaviour would serve to discourage contibutions from writers. Most people in my shoes would simply have given up a long time ago, and that's a loss to Wikipedia if certain users are abusing the system so as others are ostracised.
Well, I'm sorry to come out with all this complaining here! It's because I get the impression you're a very experienced Wiki writer - so I thought I'd ask you what you'd suggest - as you might have good suggestions regarding the situation! I also noticed that you, like me, were aiming at taking a balanced view of the subject (the Wiki ideal), which I liked. And so I also wondered if I could take you up on your original offer to lend a hand - and I was wondering what you would suggest I do next? With many thanks in advance for any tips or input you might have. . . Simon K (Talk) 21:28, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to ensure that the Neutrality Projecthas not become inactive. If you would still like to participate in it, please re-add your name to the Review Team list. Jame § ugrono 07:35, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. I am having a dispute with a user on FGC. I noticed your previous contribution and hoped you might provide some third-party commentary on a dispute at Blackworm’s objections. Your opinion would be greatly appreciated. Thank You. Phyesalis ( talk) 01:41, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your considerable comments left on our talk page. However, though your intentions seem noble, there are some issues, most of which are not entirely your fault.
Again, sorry that we aren't able to deal with it immediately. However, since it's on the talk page, it would certainly be a long term goal of the project. Jame § ugrono 20:18, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
I see you've spearheaded some work on date/time templates. Is there a template which returns age in years, months AND days?
For example, if I entered {{ template | 2005 | 8 | 1 }} today, it would return "2 years, 4 months, 1 day."
Thanks. (Answer here, and I'll check back.)—
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00:10, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
(Moved from your user page) I did what I could. The article still needs a lot of work, in order to comply with WP:NPOV. Athene cunicularia ( talk) 22:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed. I just made a suggestion on Talk:United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church that the article be renamed. Please post a comment with your opinion. Thanks. Steve Dufour ( talk) 16:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey Ed! Hope you're well. I still have that page on my watchlist and that just popped out as obviously inappropriate. I probably should have looked more closely at the rest of the edits too. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 00:29, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I saw your comment on the NYC meetup page. If you are interested in expounding on early admin history (which you were quite involved with) please consider adding whatever you may remember to User talk:NoSeptember/Early admins. Cheers, NoSeptember 19:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed,
I'm pretty new here and I appreciate your helping with my work on the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and thanks for pointing out that the Rev. Moon (as 'True Parent' of the Unification Church and it's members) does not personally own the the Washington Times, United Press International, Insight Magazine and the others, but I think your editorials appear to be attempts to 'distance' Rev. Moon from Unification Church owned/controlled/subsidized media, and maybe a bit disingenuous -- especially coming from a Unification Church member. These efforts appear to clearly represent a POV in favor of masking the extent of Rev. Moon's use of Church-controlled media in the political sphere, such as is confirmed by Rev. Moon's own words ("I used the Washington Times to stop that evil attempt..."). which is properly cited in the article and referenced back to Unification Church websites.
Specifically, you seem overly-sensitive to any criticizm of Unification Church-controlled media as "propaganda", no matter how well-founded. In one instance related to the assertion that Unification Church subsidized media are propaganda outlets, you recently changed "Critics charge that...", to "Critics complain...".
Your substitution of the word 'complain' is pejorative in the way it re-characterizes some important and well-founded criticism as "complaining". If it's true that the Unification Church has subsidized billions of dollars of operating losses at the Washington Times and other neoconservative media outlets, the "charge" that these billions of dollars of subsidies represent propaganda tactics seems well founded, especially in light of Rev. Moon's public comments about "using" the Washington Times in political context.
So, acknowledging that the original word "charge" could also be pejorative, I'm changing the line to "Critics assert..." and hope we can agree on this.
I understand the reaction to the word "propaganda". Carelessly used, it's a pejorative, and ANY use of the word should be checked for POV, but IF it's supported by facts, THEN it's a quite acceptable and even necessary to use the word. I think there is a very good case, given the billions of dollars of Unification Church subsidies used to sustain these money-losing media holdings since 1983, and the generally universal recognition of these Media holdings as "agenda oriented", that the assertion that these holdings represent propaganda outlets is well founded in the definition of the word. I understand that it's not "politically correct" among neo-conservatives to permit the use the word propaganda in reference to Unification Church-controlled media. I also understand that characterizations of popular media (whether Unification Church-controlled or not) as "propaganda" tend to be incendiary and provoke heated defense from adherents.
If you can suggest a different word that nonetheless accurately characterizes the criticizm, I would welcome it, but there does not appear to be one in the English language.
Lastly, as a Unification Church member who has written quite a bit of pro-Unification Church material (i.e. Ed Poor claims Moon critics ignore Moon's actual statements...., I think your POV calls into question your ability to "criticize the critics" in an NPOV manner, especially when those critics are pointing out "Moon's actual statements".
I am respectfully suggesting that you:
a) Please respond on my talk page if you want to discuss further, and
b) In the context of your apparently unresolvable POV problem, I'd suggest you recuse yourself from the topic, and abstain from further undiscussed deletion or rewording of other editors work involving Rev. Moon's critics. Certainly your voice and POV with respect to critics is welcome on the talk pages, and I look forward to you proposing your changes there. For example, a suggestion to change "Critics charge...propaganda" to something less pejorative might easily have been welcomed.
I for one am looking forward to learning more about Rev. Moon's teachings. There is no doubt that you are knowledgable about Rev. Moon and the Unification Church. I hope you will add more on Unification Church views (for example, I want to understand why Rev. Moon claims to have "used the Washington Times" to squelch a GOP concerns regarding the United Nations) and less time subtracting from what seems to be honest, substantive and well-founded criticisms.
Thanks,
riverguy42 ( talk) 17:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Okay, that makes more sense. I do feel caught up in something other than the basic editing of an article, which isn't fun. I also think that the IP is trying to push his POV, which may have contributed to my assumption that he was wrong. It sounds like the biases are as ambiguous as any revert war, but I do feel like I wasted my time editing something that I didn't know wouldn't stand. Athene cunicularia ( talk) 02:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed, I've not been able to find much information on Richard Courtney, not even such basic info as what degrees he holds or what his academic training was in. Given the requirements for reliable information per WP:BLP, might it be better not to have an article? I've long expressed concern that Wikipedia's many articles on marginally-notable individuals are disasters waiting to happen, as there are few people watching them to keep bad stuff from creeping in. Raymond Arritt ( talk) 18:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Please add a link to the insightmag page quoted in this edit: [14]. Thanks. Andyvphil ( talk) 11:50, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I have readded the controversy section to this that you removed and put a note on the talk page. I'm offended because I worked hard on the last paragraph, which is relevent to the article especially given the number of news stories out there about the allegations against him. I welcome you to work on it if you feel it lacks something, but blatently removing the whole thing is just plain wrong.
Take a look at my edit history and guess why I don't edit on Wikipedia anymore. It is exactly situations like this. Davidpdx ( talk) 09:07, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed, glad to see you're back on Wikipedia. Take a look, on my talk page, at my brief analysis of the current state of the anthropogenic global warming hysteria ... it's slowly (or perhaps rapidly) falling apart in the scientific world, even as it gains momentum in the political world. Once it collapses, it won't be much of a problem on Wikipedia any more. Courage. Vegasprof ( talk) 17:48, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Ed,
Thanks for the nice words at my talk page, and I hope you also liked my treatment of "Basic Beliefs", which I almost can't believe was missing from the BLP of a spiritual leader.
I hope you will add something to the "subject-object" issue that takes some reinforcement from there.
Meanwhile, there is a growing problem with tendentious editing among some UC member-editors, and I think you are probably the best guy here to provide them (and perhaps me) some moderating influence and guidance. Can you please take a look at Steve Dufour's recent section blanking, my response, and chime in?
Thanks,
riverguy42 ( talk) 19:32, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
We need to get a preliminary head-count for the AMNH tour happening before the meet-up. If you think you would like to go, please sign up at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC#AMHN tour sign-up. Thanks! ScienceApologist ( talk) 02:56, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi again Ed,
I sympathize with the (apparent) difficulties that Rev. Moon and the Unification Church have had in expressing deeply spiritual metaphors of Korean linguistic construction in the (relatively impoverished) English language. I made reference to one such instance in my comment to you regarding Rev. Moon's incendiary description of women as "receptacles" for male "seed", (which fails in it's comparison of human biology to plant biology) at the talk page for Sun Myung Moon.
It just occurred to me that what Rev. Moon might have been trying to convey is the idea of woman as "Holy Grail", the ancient representation that is used by (for example) the Freemasons as popularized in "The DaVinci Code". This is extraordinarily difficult going from Hebrew to English and I can imagine this might also be the case going from Korean to English.
It seems to me that this "chalice" idea may be more representative of what Moon was trying to convey in the controversial "receptacle" comments, and that you might be able to draw out and cite some references to this somewhat more sophisticated metaphor from the Divine Principle (if any indeed exist).
However, I think that Unification Church theology will have a big challenge if the Freemasons and other proto-Christians are right, and the bloodline of Jesus was indeed preserved (in secrecy) as they say was foretold in Isiah 53:10... Jesus offspring ;->
Anyway, thanks again for your efforts and help...I'm still pretty new at this.
riverguy42 ( talk) 09:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Ed,
I've redirected Cold fusion research back to cold fusion. I'm afraid that the most probable result of your making such an article would be to either create a POV fork between the two pages or simply spread the edit warring. If you want to work on the article while it is locked, could you please copy the source to a user-subpage sandbox and link it on Talk:Cold fusion if you want comments? That will at least keep any warring out of article space. Michaelbusch ( talk) 04:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
What you wrote was fine. The potential for a POV fork was two cold fusion articles with different, both non-neutral, points-of-view. Thanks for moving it to userspace. Michaelbusch ( talk) 19:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
"I didn't realize you had a family member in hospital. I'm happy to withdraw the ANI and tickle you with a large wet trout instead. Peace? --Uncle Ed (talk) 23:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Peace is good, Ed. Guy (Help!) 00:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC) " Good job, Ed. It's nice to see that we can disagree but not hate. Seriously. I like stuff like that. On the other hand, I really like trout cooked Provençal style. :)
You are named as a party at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Cold fusion. Please either agree to mediation, or strike your name from the list of parties. MigFP ( talk) 05:46, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I have seen some of your work; and you seem like a respected level-headed editor of climate change related articles. I am a new editor, and have been subejct to lots of harassment and accusations of bad faith. This user in particular has been reverting my work with no care, and posting nasty threats on my user talk page. Any help or advice you can offer me will be quite appreciated. Regards, The Noosphere ( talk) 19:37, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm charged with making the reservations for us, so let's make it official. We'll do this via voting and everyone including anonymous voters, sockpuppets, and canvassed supporters is enfranchised. Voting irregularities and election fraud are encouraged as that would be really amusing in this instance. Please vote for whichever restaurant you would like to eat at given the information provided above and your own personal prejudices at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC#Let's make it official. The prevailing restaurant will be called first for the reservation. If a reservation cannot be obtained at the winning restaurant, the runner-up restaurant will be called thus making this entire process pointless. Voting ends 24 hours after this timestamp (because I said so). ScienceApologist ( talk) 17:19, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Ed, as one of the editors of Bombing of Dresden in World War II, would you mind commenting here about a possible name change? There is a proposal to call the article simply Bombing of Dresden. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) (contribs) 14:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Please note, I have acted on the consensus I have seen on the main RfC page, and opened a Request for Arbitration. You may add (brief, 500 words or less) statements Here. SirFozzie ( talk) 23:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Ed, it's pretty clear the editors there have reached the end of their rope with you. [15] Pursuant to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2, I'm banning you from that article and that talk page. Raul654 ( talk) 19:30, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I notice that, as of today, the "Age Template" is one years old... I don't know what language Wikipedia is written in, but there must be an easy way to fix that!-- 81.62.98.254 ( talk) 15:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Ed, R. fiend has stated that he's voluntarily resigning as an admin, which pretty much short circuits the whole ArbCom case. I discussed this case with an Arbitration clerk, who stated since R. fiend officially apologized for the block and stated that his block of you was without merit or reason (pretty much), that one thing you could point to is if someone placed a one second block on your account stating User:R. fiend's block of User:Ed Poor was in error, and this block should not be held against User:Ed Poor's record. If that is an option, would you be ok with it? SirFozzie ( talk) 03:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll check my block log for it. -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 01:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Ed, I undid your comment to ScienceApologist as you blanked his "essay". In case you hadn't noticed, he's been quite active today - so a bit premature to bid farewell methinks. You may re-add your comment, but please don't delete his content. Vsmith ( talk) 00:46, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
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>(one of the oldest members of Wikipedia - dating back to 2001).
For your old age, you are mighty humble, hunk-ed. There was no need of you to say but thanks. -- Lucyintheskywithdada ( talk) 08:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Steve Dufour ( talk) 23:21, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Glad you like arpeggiato. Interesting that it is was not well represented already. I made a couple of redirects to sort all that out.
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Thought you might want to apply a little scrutiny to what David Limbaugh actually said. Paragraphs six and seven...note the weasle worded way he implies that the stuff he found was on the NEA web site, when in fact it was not on the NEA site, it was FOUR links away from NEA!!!! (I added the (*) numbers inline, for clarity...
Limbaugh:
"Then I clicked on a number of links that purported to offer guidance on such questions as "Why do so many people around the world hate America" and invariably was taken to (1) "Moving Ideas," an online magazine of the (2) Policy Action Network, a (3) "project of The American Prospect Magazine."
"The (3) American Prospect is referred to by (4) www.turnleft.com, the self-described "home of liberalism on the Web," as "A magazine on American politics and society with emphasis on public policy from a liberal perspective." "Moving Ideas" boasts of being the online magazine that "posts the best ideas and resources from leading progressive research and advocacy institutions."
Surprised you missed this, see how slippery these guys are? But thanks for the material, I'm sure SOME intrepid journalist caught Limbaugh's dissembling, now I just need to summarize it and put it up!!!... ;-}
I learned the word despicable from watching Daffy Duck on TV as a boy. I guess we both would agree with Rev. Moon on one thing: that honesty comes first. [16]
It is natural, when a man appears claiming to speak for God, that people would subject him to intense scrutiny. It happened to Jesus: "How can your master be the Christ, when he eats and drinks ... Doesn't he know what manner of woman this is? ... He makes himself God ..." Etc.
For me, the bottom line is: how much is my spiritual growth helped by following someone's teachings, example, and/or organization?
Anyway, we Moonies are taught to "love our enemies" and also be polite when online. :-) -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 02:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Some things return to haunt you. An old action of yours is quite legendary and was considered worthy of inclusion on WP:Village stocks, so I now present you with the following "award". :-) Gwinva ( talk) 02:19, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
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Ed have you thought about archiving your talk page? Balloonman ( talk) 05:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks, Ed, for your comments on my user page. I don't know if you followed the arguments that led up to that discussion but I totally agree with your comment re: starting a quarrel about whether someone is quarrelsome. Those guys have knocked it off for the time being but I expect that as soon as I have something to add to one of the pages they have ownership issues with, that the accusations will start again ... sigh. csloat 20:34, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Tag bombing articles [1] that run against your personal bent is not constructive editing, Ed. Why am I not surprised this is exactly what you chose to do after creating that tag? FeloniousMonk 22:24, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Hate to tell you this, but you've killed the formatting of the Jonathan Sarfati article. Don't put carriage returns after references - the Wiki software interprets them as paragraph breaks. Adam Cuerden talk 11:56, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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I just put a bit of Father's speech on my homepage so that whenever anyone wikistalks me it will count as a reading. :-) Steve Dufour 17:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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Good to see [2] -- all too rare around here! Raymond Arritt 19:00, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed - TGGWS ended up protected due to edit warring over "polemic". It was nice and stable until you barged in and changed it. Why exactly do you see yourself as having good reason to overthrow the decision reached in [3]? It really is not at all helpful William M. Connolley 20:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Uncle Ed. User:Blueboar appears confident that the thread you started (and I joined) was not correctly placed on Wikipedia_talk:Attribution/FAQ. I'm not sure that you agree, but if you do, how about if we move that thread here, to your Talk page? Then I would leave a pointer from the original location to here. If this sounds like a bad idea, no need to respond. Thanks. EdJohnston 01:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
A thread was moved here from Wikipedia talk:Attribution/FAQ because User:Blueboar argued that it didn't belong in that department. Though I'm not fully tuned in to where this would belong, I offered to move the thread here and Uncle Ed agreed. Pointer was left in the original location. See [4] for the original location. EdJohnston 02:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Suppose there is a scientific matter which is the object of hot debate (in newspapers, on TV, in political campaigns). One side says that there is a "scientific consensus" in favor of a certain idea which lends primary support to a policy the side is advocating.
How about changing articles and their titles so that they do not state the degree to which the idea enjoys scientific support? In other words, just list scientists and scientific bodies and their positions on the matter. -- Uncle Ed 17:59, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Not in Evolution itself - he said it came up on the talk page. I'm not sure what that means, but I think it's common knowledge that 99.8% of biologists support the theory of evolution. So EdJohnston must be referring to something else. Please don't dismiss our questions. -- Uncle Ed 19:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Here is what other editors said in response:"Tifft’s redshift quantization, as well as other intrinsic redshift theories, are still occasionally cited, though other cosmologists note that Tifft and his results have been nearly totally ignored.[8][9]." (underline is in the original).
Ed, I do not know if you got a chance to watch the entire documentary. You are can find it on YouTube here: The Great Global Warming Swindle [5] Best wishes. RonCram 16:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, there is talk for you on the t:LIA. If you're going to POV-tag it, please try to answer William M. Connolley 20:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed', I modified the intro to this article a little in view of your comment. When you get a chance, have a look and see what you think, ok? Cheers, Wikityke 22:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Try User:HagermanBot/OptOut. Raymond Arritt 15:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Do we know each other from some other forum? Skyemoor 18:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't see any point in editing an article that is owned by an administrator who thinks himself above Wikipedia rules--too much risk given the power differential, and the Skyemoor remark makes me realize that I'm also risking someone writing a false hit piece about my Wikipedia edits given the sensitivity of this particular subject. If you want to navigate the dispute resolution process so that abusive editors are disciplined, I'll add my name and my personal experience. -- TedFrank 21:47, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Please take a look at this Talk page, especially the part on "pseudoscience" and William's reverts. The POV of certain editors is preventing them from objectively dealing with the facts. The concepts involved are not difficult but they do take a little investment of time to understand. You may need to spend some time in the Pseudoscience article to be fully comfortable. I hope you are able to find the time to help out. Thanks! RonCram 14:59, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, I was talking about the editors involved, not the article. People have to be objective in order to rightly consider the facts and the citations. The articles are supposed to present the facts and citations in a balanced and neutral POV, meaning that readers are allowed to go to the sources and make up their own minds. Does that help? RonCram 15:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, by objective I do not mean that editors have no point of view. I do not even think that is possible. I mean only that they are able to see facts for what they are - facts. Unfortunately, instead of acknowledging the facts or seeking to provide mitigating facts of their own to provide balance, some editors simply delete the material because it offends their world view and they do not want readers to have access to these facts. Regarding the similarity between your first edit and Stephan's, it is remarkable. I provided citations initially, but it seems strange to do so because the evidence for the polcies is in the article itself. The article quotes the policies of NSF, Nature and Science journals. The concept of data archiving is new to many editors, including the ones who should know and abide by the policies. Reading the Talk page is most informative on this. The statement that most journals do not enforce the policies was added by William Connelly and is probably true but is OR. William has not attempted to provide a citation. The "weasel words" were written by me. If you can read the article I cited and come up with a better way to say it, it would be welcome. Thanks for contributing! RonCram 15:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, I responded to your comment on my User Talk page. Just giving you a heads up. RonCram 16:04, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, I think it was a little unfair for you to encourage me to explain my arguments in the sandbox and utilize that for testing out new versions of that section there, and then for you to go ahead and butcher the section in the actual article without even trying to modify the version in the sandbox nor to respond to the discussion there. csloat 07:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
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Good grief. You claim to intentionally revert to what you claim is the wrong version? How on earth is that a good faith thing to do? Why would you do that? -- Blue Tie 16:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, for reasons that are unclear, you reverted to a version of the intro that I consider to be stupid, viz Although global warming has occurred in the past, according to the Energy Information Agency, the term is most often used to refer to the warming some scientists predict will occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases. The ref to the EIA is out of place in the intro - there is no reason to pick them out as a source, it looks dumb. Also the sentence is now ambiguous - do you mean the EIA says it has occured in the past; or the EIA says it most often used to, or what? This version is clearly inferior to the one that has been stable for ages and won the article its FA status William M. Connolley 18:10, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[9] William M. Connolley 19:00, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Wer mit Ungeheuern kampft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird.
Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.
And when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
Enjoy... -- Ben TALK/ HIST 19:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I was reported as having violated 3rr Here. This is my first known instance of policy violation. I feel badly about it. No action was taken but I still feel badly about it. I was cited as having reverted you 2007-03-25T13:33:44 here as an unmarked partial rv of [10]. I specifically apologize to you for the error and the angst. Though there was no action taken, I have voluntarily blocked myself from editing wikipedia articles and talk pages for 24 hours from the date that this notice was filed on the 3rr board. -- Blue Tie 13:50, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm on the Independent Institute's mailing list, and they sent me this commentary, which fits your interests more than mine. -- TedFrank 00:54, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed, I am trying to get more information to see if it is a Conflict of Intrest violation for an Environmental Activist/ Green Party member to be actavly editing pages that have to do with Environmental issues. Your thoughts?-- Zeeboid 17:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I am enjoying learning from you. -- Blue Tie 19:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
How about "Nothing is better than a perfect life and a ham sandwich is better than nothing ergo a ham sandwich is better than a perfect life"? -- BozMo talk 08:07, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Ed Poor, can you please inform William of his misbehavior at History of the Yosemite area. He is persistently vandalizing the page by removing a valid {{unreferenced}} template, despite the fact I contacted him and talked about it on the article talk page. He's been persistent and is engaging in an edit war. I can't do this by myself... ~ UBeR 22:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
As one of the users you banned, I was wondering if you had something to add to the Conservapedia page? As a sysop on their site, I'm sure you are uniquely suited to edit the Wikipedia page and look for opportunities to add content. Menkatopia 14:50, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. — David Levy 01:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalise pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. — David Levy 02:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Yep, I got my PhD there in 2001. Phiwum 23:50, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Framing (sociology). - Grumpyyoungman01 14:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
You gave great input some time ago in the JW articles, I was hoping you could help with a comment or more at Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions. It is a content question and a dispassionate POV would help us determine if certain information is OR or not. George 07:26, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I understand. Sorry for the lack of patience. George 01:05, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
You badly messed up my talk page - please be more careful next time. I am aware of your concerns, which is why I am using the talk pages on those articles. However I felt the edits you made were not appropriate according to the general style of the pages. You also need to be more specific with your concerns and what it is you believe you want. John Smith's 17:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed. Do you think this is necessary? -- Guinnog 18:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you have time to discuss this edit where you changed my addition of the word (and link) to USA? My feeling there was that the lead section was not telling non-US people which country the book was written and published in. Do you agree that a reference to USA or American (possibly not linked) in the lead of that article is needed? Some people say that people can find out where Boston is by clicking on the link, but I think that puts too much of a burden on the reader. An article needs to be self-contained up to a point, and key facts need to be presented to the reader, rather than leaving them to go off and find out for themselves. Imagine a reader who didn't know these basic facts - you are expecting them to click every other link to find out the context - which would disrupt their reading of the article. What do you think? Carcharoth 10:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
James I was born Duke of Albany and Duke of Rothesay a year before being crowned King of Scots and Lord of the Isles. In 1603, he was crowned King of England and King of Ireland. In Scotland, he succeeded Mary, Queen of Scots, and in England he succeeded Elizabeth I. He was succeeded by Charles I. Both James and Henry Stuart (Lord Darnley) were Dukes of Albany. The next Duke of Albany after James was Charles. James was Duke of Rothesay from birth as the heir apparent to the Scottish throne, until he became King of Scotland. The previous heir apparent and Duke of Rothesay had been James Stewart, the eldest legitimate son of James V of Scotland. The next Duke of Rothesay after James was Henry Stuart.
James I, King of Great Britain, of the House of Stuart was born Duke of Albany and Duke of Rothesay in 1566, a year before being crowned (as James VI) King of Scots and Lord of the Isles in 1567. Thirty-six years later, in 1603, he was crowned (as James I) King of England and King of Ireland, uniting all three countries in a personal union. In Scotland, he succeeded his mother Mary, Queen of Scots, and in England he succeeded his mother's half-sister Elizabeth I. The personal union as King of Great Britain was continued by his second son and successor, Charles I. Both James and his father Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and King-consort of Scotland, were Dukes of Albany, James from birth until he became King of Scotland a year later, and his father from when he married James's mother, Mary, in 1565 until his murder two years later in 1567 at the age of 21, less than a year after the birth of their son James. The next Duke of Albany after James was James's second son, Charles. James was Duke of Rothesay from birth as the heir apparent to the Scottish throne, until he became King of Scotland. The previous male heir apparent and Duke of Rothesay had been James Stewart, the eldest legitimate son of James's maternal grandfather James V of Scotland (1512-1542). James Stewart died in 1541 just before his first birthday. The next Duke of Rothesay after James was Henry Stuart, James's eldest son who died of typhoid fever at the age of eighteen.
Water. Horses. *sigh* Another failure. Did you come for a discussion, or just to shoot and leave? You missed my main point, which is about the proper place to hit the user with the clue stick. I specifically mentioned the Boston article as the right place to tell users what country it's in, and you pretend that "my logic" dictates removing it from the very place I said users would look for it in. Yet another reason to abandon this madhouse. (I would go read The Inmates Are Running The Asylum, but that's actually a rant about software design.) -- Uncle Ed 14:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Problem solved. Remind not to prod you again. You seem rather irritable! :-) Carcharoth 15:09, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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You seem a bit of a kindred spirit to me vis a vis seeing POV in adjective choice, sentence balance, and placement, as well as believing minority views must have fair, not disparaging or absent mention. Particularly frustrating for me today, but then I read something or other which leads me to your user page and this: "Don't expect too much - Wikipedia is only 6 years old and is about as mature as a schoolboy of the same age. Give it time. Ahh...phewwwww...that feels better. Thank you. That really helped me today. Joevanisland 19:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
You might get a laugh out of this: Betting on global warming :-) Steve Dufour 21:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Uncle Ed. Lest I be continuously accused of canvassing, I just wish to simply inform you of a complaint over an issue I care deeply about, here. I know you have participated in global warming and have had interaction with both myself and said "bureaucrat," and I believe your judgment on this issue will be conducive and fair. Any comments you have are appreciated. Thank you. ~ UBeR 01:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I have noticed your editor reviewi n the back log. To get other editors to review you, you need to put the entry of your page on Wikipedia:Editor review main page. AQu01rius ( User • Talk) 18:14, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I wonder: Am I the only one at Wikipedia to have a personal award named after him?
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Do you want to perhaps leave some comments on the talk page explaining why its POV? Just because we have to remain neutral doesn't mean we have to give equal weight to widely discredited accusations of forgery. Sabine's Sunbird talk 23:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I just came over to get some info on the author of Rogue Warrior, but there were so many mistakes in the Dick Marcinko article that I got distracted. What kind of a reference forces you to correct it before you use it? -- Uncle Ed 21:57, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for helping with the clean-up on the Marcinko article! Mike Searson 00:03, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hello. While going through Category:Inactive WikiProjects I ran across the page Wikipedia:WikiProject quality, which you created in October 2005. The page has been inactive since then and, to me, looks more like an essay than a WikiProject. Would you mind {{ db-author}}ing, userfying it, or letting me know if I have missed something? Thanks, Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:13, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
If Conservapedia is conservative, why does it not allow the use of the word "fag"? While I admit Wikipedia is liberal, Conservapedia is ten times as liberal. Any truly consevrative website would encourage homophobia and the use of homophobic slurs, so the site is very liberal. Clavern 02:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
That comes across as ignorant. StaticElectric 22:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. As you userfied that page, perhaps you will also want to userfy Wikipedia:Quality. It is currently a redirect to the deleted page, but there are numerous versions you can revert to. Cheers, Black Falcon ( Talk) 17:07, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Bittersweet YouTube video Wiki-Man. -- Uncle Ed 22:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
I think [12] is a bit of a give-away William M. Connolley 09:18, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Sorry Ed, but I feel obliged to tease you... when even Conservatopedia reverts you with rm silly anti-IPCC diatribe you really *must* be in trouble :-) William M. Connolley 08:42, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I regard your refusal as a tacit admission that the anthropogenic global warming theory is pseudoscience. There's not even an article explaining what the theory *IS*, let alone showing evidence for it or explaining how it could be falsified.
If your argument in favor of AGW had any credibility, you wouldn't be changing the subject. True science works not be distracting people when they mount challenges, but by sharing evidence and inviting other scientists to replicate your work. -- Uncle Ed 14:54, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello Ed Poor! I saw somewhere saying you work for the New World Encyclopedia. That one looks pretty decent. Just a question, when it's launched, who can edit there? Regards. Wooyi Talk to me? 21:08, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. Did you receive my e-mail of May 8th and are you in a position to move ahead with the planning? I'd be glad to help as well. Regards, Newyorkbrad 22:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
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:). Glad to see you might be back around - your insight and ability will always be a benefit to the Committee, and it'll be much stronger if you decide you can take a case here and there :). Daniel 09:14, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Sir, regarding your aticle, how do we know this here, the present, is not a hallucination? Observe the continuity or lack thereof, you say? I say this works in the long term but owing that one does not necessarily know at any given point in time that they are hallucinating there is no way to know whether the observation of continuity itself is not a (arguably boring) hallucination. I would also posit that it is impossible for an individual to prove via logic proof that they are not hallucinating at any given time, since at any point in the discourse, one could hallucinate that an assertion makes sense. ~ Infrangible 02:59, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Really now Ed, the contextless quote you tacked in was from a source discussing consensus science not scientific consensus. Or don't you know the difference? Vsmith 00:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
In case it dropped off your watchlist, some discussion eventually took place at Portal talk:Middle-earth/Random-article in response to your question. Carcharoth 21:50, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hi there Ed, I was wondering if you could look at the way the article Potter's House Christian Fellowship is being edited. Darrenss is a disgrutled former member and shows obvious bias if you veiw his history. He also attacks any site associated with the group deleting key links and nominating pages for deletion. I was wondering if you could check it out to see if yhe can be blocked or the articles made to be more 'neutral' and not hate pages, if you have time of course. Thanks. 124.184.131.250 11:10, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw you contributed to
British Mandate for Palestine. Could you give your mind for a title issue between Palestine and British Mandate for Palestine
here.
Thank you in advance !
Regards,
Alithien
18:53, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Did you read my Definition of Palestine and Palestinian? The terms are not equivalent at all. Palestine is a region, but it's also a "country" or "nation" in the making, intended to reduce or absorb Israel's territory.
Also, it's often unclear what "Palestinian" means. Is it a resident of Palestine (region), such as the pre-1967 Palestinian Jews? Is it a non-Jewish resident of Israel? Any resident of Gaza or West Bank, or just non-Jewish ones? Does it include Arabs in other lands (e.g., Jordan) who want to "return"?
It would be simpler if newspapers and other media would say "PA citizen" or "Arab" when speaking of political or ethnic identity. But the whole issue of who is a "Palestinian" and what this means is caught up in a tangle of ethnicity and nationalism.
Please don't ask me to make this any simpler. -- Uncle Ed 18:31, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
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Back on 2 August 2006, you added {{ POV-section}} to Operation Accountability#Outcome. You didn't drop a note on the talk page. Can you put one there to indicate what the concern is? GRBerry 21:16, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
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Here's something interesting for you (I hope): AND wikipedia project
What do you think about? :-)
(PS: I picked you up just as the first one of the project members list!)
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The Intelligent design article received heavy editing today by new/unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee ( Talk) 07:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words on my talk page. I am mulling over an example for scientific method which is not natural science-oriented to demonstrate that it is not restricted to the traditional topics in scientific method. One example which occurs to me is from economics. For example, the Chicago RTA is currently playing a game of 'chicken' with the state, to see who blinks first. I need to ask some urban planners their thoughts, but briefly my idea is to state the RTA mess right now, list some options for action based on the perceived policy for the City of Chicago, and come up with a prediction. It's not really original research because urban policy has to serve the inhabitants of the city. I do not think that would be disputed. Therefore the prediction ought to be that some state agency will provide a way to guarantee a bond which underwrites additional funds for transportation infrastructure in Chicago. The prediction does not have to answer when.
Sample:
Step 4 (at least the first part) was in yesterday's Chicago Tribune headline which I picked up today at the Tollway Oasis after visiting my daughters: "RTA digs itself into deeper hole". So all that is needed is the demonstration of political support, and I can add this to the article as a concrete example. The essential point is that no one knows the answer right now; it's a conundrum, hence suitable for scientific method. -- Ancheta Wis 02:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand why you reverted my change here. Your comment of rvv is puzzling. Did you mean "revert vandalism"? I thought it was against the customs here to label a change which you disagree with editorially as "vandalism". -- Uncle Ed 03:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
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Was I blocked? I wonder what it was for ... -- Uncle Ed 22:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
If I were a suspicious man, I would think it was retribution for blocking someone on another wiki. But since I'm not suspicious I assume it was a glitch caused by my IP skipping around on wi-fi.
Hey, how come wi-fi doesn't rhyme with wiki? :-) -- Uncle Ed 22:18, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I just read your user page and saw you were on probation. Why don't you just create a new identity so you don't have this hanging around your neck? Traicao 05:01, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
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The agenda for the next meetup includes the formation of a Wikimedia New York City local chapter. Hope to see you there!-- Pharos 20:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry that I did not see your reversion of an addition I had made to the asbestos article, to wit
I can move the first of the two references to just behind the word RAND if that would make the reference clearer, however the source is RAND directly. The link for the sample 10-Q should lead to a public filings by Enpro, so I changed the FN reference slightly and changed 'some' to 'at least one'
That would produce:
This look ok to you? Bob Herrick 22:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I would appreciate your input. There seems to be an editor who feels it is his/her perogative to completely control the WSI article. He is even edit warring on the talk page.-- JobsElihu 00:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
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I've started a stub on the above today. I was rather surprised that there was no article on it until today.
Dear Ed Poor,
I am trying to recruit participants to my PhD research project, tackling 'The Politics of Genetics and Reproductive Technology'. I noticed your contributions towards the article on Biology and sexual orientation and I wondered if you'd like to participate? I believe you will be able to make a valuable contribution. Before you decide, you should be aware of what this involves. I am inviting you to contribute towards a (password protected) "research wiki". This will be used because I'm interested to see how differing attitudes to the subject interact with each other, and I want to evaluate the potential for consensus in this area. I think the wiki is extremely useful in this context. It involves collaboration and sharing ideas amongst a group, and therefore it could help shed a light on especially contentious issues or areas of potential agreement. The wiki will be in operation for a number of months and I am interested in all sorts of contributions. For further information please see this link.
If you are interested, you will find my contact details on my userpage. Feel free to get in touch should you have any questions. Your valuable contribution would be much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Nicholas 19:44, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Just thought you would want to know that Wikipedia:WikiProject Past Political Scandals and Controversies has been created. It will take it awhile to get it running. Feel free to jump in and help out. Remember 20:10, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Ed, I liked the additions you made to Mendel re the alleged faking of his data. What was FM's objection to this addtion other than it was you that added it? Do you think he actually read the content before reverting? I'd be game for adding it back but we need to reference it better. For example do you have the full citation for Box 1978? David D. (Talk) 15:59, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes I thought the edits were good also. Massachew 17:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello Ed - Earlier in the year you assisted with the Dental Amalgam Controversy page, and I just recently noticed (discoverd!) my User Talk page, and the message you'd posted there (thank you) - so I've at last got round to replying! Wanted to check you knew I'd replied. Anyway, regarding the above-mentioned article, it's now November, and I made a suggestion for the article back in February which still no one has either accepted or rejected. Incredible! Although I'm a Wiki neophyte, still that seems a mighty long time to wait for a consensus from other Wiki editors on my suggested addition!
Do you think this is exceptional, or does it happen often in Wikipedia that a proposed addition to a controversial article ends up waiting in limbo for 10 months while the article was frozen during most of that time... and still no response from anyone about my suggestion? And it's not even that my suggested addition is controversial, because I don't think it is. In fact, it's a rather conservative statement (and well-referenced), and no one in these ten months has expressed any criticism of it. So I'm thinking of just posting it in the article itself. However, the last time I tried to post small additions like this, they were reverted 4 or 5 times in a row, and without any explanation or discussion from the editors that were doing the reversions. So I have a suspicion that despite this ten-month silence, nonetheless my addition could well be simply reverted - in silence! - as last time!
Perhaps my fears are unjustified. But based on my past experience from last time, this almost seems like an abuse of the Wikipedia system when that kind of thing happens - as you can see: this is the result - a well-meaning contributor like me, who is trying as best as he can to write balanced and well-referenced statements to contribute to the community encyclopedia effort - and due to the apparently abusive behaviour of certain others, his contributions are either reverted or ignored for ten months, without even any discussion (note: I'm not saying that the neglect is abusive in itself, it was the repetitive reversions with no discussion that were abusive at the time, then followed by ten months of silence). I don't even know who, if anyone, I should complain to on Wikipedia about this situation/behaviour. But at the very least, I don't think this is true to the friendly Wiki community spirit, and certainly this type of behaviour would serve to discourage contibutions from writers. Most people in my shoes would simply have given up a long time ago, and that's a loss to Wikipedia if certain users are abusing the system so as others are ostracised.
Well, I'm sorry to come out with all this complaining here! It's because I get the impression you're a very experienced Wiki writer - so I thought I'd ask you what you'd suggest - as you might have good suggestions regarding the situation! I also noticed that you, like me, were aiming at taking a balanced view of the subject (the Wiki ideal), which I liked. And so I also wondered if I could take you up on your original offer to lend a hand - and I was wondering what you would suggest I do next? With many thanks in advance for any tips or input you might have. . . Simon K (Talk) 21:28, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to ensure that the Neutrality Projecthas not become inactive. If you would still like to participate in it, please re-add your name to the Review Team list. Jame § ugrono 07:35, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. I am having a dispute with a user on FGC. I noticed your previous contribution and hoped you might provide some third-party commentary on a dispute at Blackworm’s objections. Your opinion would be greatly appreciated. Thank You. Phyesalis ( talk) 01:41, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your considerable comments left on our talk page. However, though your intentions seem noble, there are some issues, most of which are not entirely your fault.
Again, sorry that we aren't able to deal with it immediately. However, since it's on the talk page, it would certainly be a long term goal of the project. Jame § ugrono 20:18, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
I see you've spearheaded some work on date/time templates. Is there a template which returns age in years, months AND days?
For example, if I entered {{ template | 2005 | 8 | 1 }} today, it would return "2 years, 4 months, 1 day."
Thanks. (Answer here, and I'll check back.)—
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00:10, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
(Moved from your user page) I did what I could. The article still needs a lot of work, in order to comply with WP:NPOV. Athene cunicularia ( talk) 22:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed. I just made a suggestion on Talk:United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church that the article be renamed. Please post a comment with your opinion. Thanks. Steve Dufour ( talk) 16:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey Ed! Hope you're well. I still have that page on my watchlist and that just popped out as obviously inappropriate. I probably should have looked more closely at the rest of the edits too. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 00:29, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I saw your comment on the NYC meetup page. If you are interested in expounding on early admin history (which you were quite involved with) please consider adding whatever you may remember to User talk:NoSeptember/Early admins. Cheers, NoSeptember 19:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed,
I'm pretty new here and I appreciate your helping with my work on the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and thanks for pointing out that the Rev. Moon (as 'True Parent' of the Unification Church and it's members) does not personally own the the Washington Times, United Press International, Insight Magazine and the others, but I think your editorials appear to be attempts to 'distance' Rev. Moon from Unification Church owned/controlled/subsidized media, and maybe a bit disingenuous -- especially coming from a Unification Church member. These efforts appear to clearly represent a POV in favor of masking the extent of Rev. Moon's use of Church-controlled media in the political sphere, such as is confirmed by Rev. Moon's own words ("I used the Washington Times to stop that evil attempt..."). which is properly cited in the article and referenced back to Unification Church websites.
Specifically, you seem overly-sensitive to any criticizm of Unification Church-controlled media as "propaganda", no matter how well-founded. In one instance related to the assertion that Unification Church subsidized media are propaganda outlets, you recently changed "Critics charge that...", to "Critics complain...".
Your substitution of the word 'complain' is pejorative in the way it re-characterizes some important and well-founded criticism as "complaining". If it's true that the Unification Church has subsidized billions of dollars of operating losses at the Washington Times and other neoconservative media outlets, the "charge" that these billions of dollars of subsidies represent propaganda tactics seems well founded, especially in light of Rev. Moon's public comments about "using" the Washington Times in political context.
So, acknowledging that the original word "charge" could also be pejorative, I'm changing the line to "Critics assert..." and hope we can agree on this.
I understand the reaction to the word "propaganda". Carelessly used, it's a pejorative, and ANY use of the word should be checked for POV, but IF it's supported by facts, THEN it's a quite acceptable and even necessary to use the word. I think there is a very good case, given the billions of dollars of Unification Church subsidies used to sustain these money-losing media holdings since 1983, and the generally universal recognition of these Media holdings as "agenda oriented", that the assertion that these holdings represent propaganda outlets is well founded in the definition of the word. I understand that it's not "politically correct" among neo-conservatives to permit the use the word propaganda in reference to Unification Church-controlled media. I also understand that characterizations of popular media (whether Unification Church-controlled or not) as "propaganda" tend to be incendiary and provoke heated defense from adherents.
If you can suggest a different word that nonetheless accurately characterizes the criticizm, I would welcome it, but there does not appear to be one in the English language.
Lastly, as a Unification Church member who has written quite a bit of pro-Unification Church material (i.e. Ed Poor claims Moon critics ignore Moon's actual statements...., I think your POV calls into question your ability to "criticize the critics" in an NPOV manner, especially when those critics are pointing out "Moon's actual statements".
I am respectfully suggesting that you:
a) Please respond on my talk page if you want to discuss further, and
b) In the context of your apparently unresolvable POV problem, I'd suggest you recuse yourself from the topic, and abstain from further undiscussed deletion or rewording of other editors work involving Rev. Moon's critics. Certainly your voice and POV with respect to critics is welcome on the talk pages, and I look forward to you proposing your changes there. For example, a suggestion to change "Critics charge...propaganda" to something less pejorative might easily have been welcomed.
I for one am looking forward to learning more about Rev. Moon's teachings. There is no doubt that you are knowledgable about Rev. Moon and the Unification Church. I hope you will add more on Unification Church views (for example, I want to understand why Rev. Moon claims to have "used the Washington Times" to squelch a GOP concerns regarding the United Nations) and less time subtracting from what seems to be honest, substantive and well-founded criticisms.
Thanks,
riverguy42 ( talk) 17:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Okay, that makes more sense. I do feel caught up in something other than the basic editing of an article, which isn't fun. I also think that the IP is trying to push his POV, which may have contributed to my assumption that he was wrong. It sounds like the biases are as ambiguous as any revert war, but I do feel like I wasted my time editing something that I didn't know wouldn't stand. Athene cunicularia ( talk) 02:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed, I've not been able to find much information on Richard Courtney, not even such basic info as what degrees he holds or what his academic training was in. Given the requirements for reliable information per WP:BLP, might it be better not to have an article? I've long expressed concern that Wikipedia's many articles on marginally-notable individuals are disasters waiting to happen, as there are few people watching them to keep bad stuff from creeping in. Raymond Arritt ( talk) 18:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Please add a link to the insightmag page quoted in this edit: [14]. Thanks. Andyvphil ( talk) 11:50, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I have readded the controversy section to this that you removed and put a note on the talk page. I'm offended because I worked hard on the last paragraph, which is relevent to the article especially given the number of news stories out there about the allegations against him. I welcome you to work on it if you feel it lacks something, but blatently removing the whole thing is just plain wrong.
Take a look at my edit history and guess why I don't edit on Wikipedia anymore. It is exactly situations like this. Davidpdx ( talk) 09:07, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ed, glad to see you're back on Wikipedia. Take a look, on my talk page, at my brief analysis of the current state of the anthropogenic global warming hysteria ... it's slowly (or perhaps rapidly) falling apart in the scientific world, even as it gains momentum in the political world. Once it collapses, it won't be much of a problem on Wikipedia any more. Courage. Vegasprof ( talk) 17:48, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Ed,
Thanks for the nice words at my talk page, and I hope you also liked my treatment of "Basic Beliefs", which I almost can't believe was missing from the BLP of a spiritual leader.
I hope you will add something to the "subject-object" issue that takes some reinforcement from there.
Meanwhile, there is a growing problem with tendentious editing among some UC member-editors, and I think you are probably the best guy here to provide them (and perhaps me) some moderating influence and guidance. Can you please take a look at Steve Dufour's recent section blanking, my response, and chime in?
Thanks,
riverguy42 ( talk) 19:32, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
We need to get a preliminary head-count for the AMNH tour happening before the meet-up. If you think you would like to go, please sign up at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC#AMHN tour sign-up. Thanks! ScienceApologist ( talk) 02:56, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi again Ed,
I sympathize with the (apparent) difficulties that Rev. Moon and the Unification Church have had in expressing deeply spiritual metaphors of Korean linguistic construction in the (relatively impoverished) English language. I made reference to one such instance in my comment to you regarding Rev. Moon's incendiary description of women as "receptacles" for male "seed", (which fails in it's comparison of human biology to plant biology) at the talk page for Sun Myung Moon.
It just occurred to me that what Rev. Moon might have been trying to convey is the idea of woman as "Holy Grail", the ancient representation that is used by (for example) the Freemasons as popularized in "The DaVinci Code". This is extraordinarily difficult going from Hebrew to English and I can imagine this might also be the case going from Korean to English.
It seems to me that this "chalice" idea may be more representative of what Moon was trying to convey in the controversial "receptacle" comments, and that you might be able to draw out and cite some references to this somewhat more sophisticated metaphor from the Divine Principle (if any indeed exist).
However, I think that Unification Church theology will have a big challenge if the Freemasons and other proto-Christians are right, and the bloodline of Jesus was indeed preserved (in secrecy) as they say was foretold in Isiah 53:10... Jesus offspring ;->
Anyway, thanks again for your efforts and help...I'm still pretty new at this.
riverguy42 ( talk) 09:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Ed,
I've redirected Cold fusion research back to cold fusion. I'm afraid that the most probable result of your making such an article would be to either create a POV fork between the two pages or simply spread the edit warring. If you want to work on the article while it is locked, could you please copy the source to a user-subpage sandbox and link it on Talk:Cold fusion if you want comments? That will at least keep any warring out of article space. Michaelbusch ( talk) 04:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
What you wrote was fine. The potential for a POV fork was two cold fusion articles with different, both non-neutral, points-of-view. Thanks for moving it to userspace. Michaelbusch ( talk) 19:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
"I didn't realize you had a family member in hospital. I'm happy to withdraw the ANI and tickle you with a large wet trout instead. Peace? --Uncle Ed (talk) 23:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Peace is good, Ed. Guy (Help!) 00:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC) " Good job, Ed. It's nice to see that we can disagree but not hate. Seriously. I like stuff like that. On the other hand, I really like trout cooked Provençal style. :)
You are named as a party at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Cold fusion. Please either agree to mediation, or strike your name from the list of parties. MigFP ( talk) 05:46, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I have seen some of your work; and you seem like a respected level-headed editor of climate change related articles. I am a new editor, and have been subejct to lots of harassment and accusations of bad faith. This user in particular has been reverting my work with no care, and posting nasty threats on my user talk page. Any help or advice you can offer me will be quite appreciated. Regards, The Noosphere ( talk) 19:37, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm charged with making the reservations for us, so let's make it official. We'll do this via voting and everyone including anonymous voters, sockpuppets, and canvassed supporters is enfranchised. Voting irregularities and election fraud are encouraged as that would be really amusing in this instance. Please vote for whichever restaurant you would like to eat at given the information provided above and your own personal prejudices at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC#Let's make it official. The prevailing restaurant will be called first for the reservation. If a reservation cannot be obtained at the winning restaurant, the runner-up restaurant will be called thus making this entire process pointless. Voting ends 24 hours after this timestamp (because I said so). ScienceApologist ( talk) 17:19, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Ed, as one of the editors of Bombing of Dresden in World War II, would you mind commenting here about a possible name change? There is a proposal to call the article simply Bombing of Dresden. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) (contribs) 14:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Please note, I have acted on the consensus I have seen on the main RfC page, and opened a Request for Arbitration. You may add (brief, 500 words or less) statements Here. SirFozzie ( talk) 23:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Ed, it's pretty clear the editors there have reached the end of their rope with you. [15] Pursuant to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2, I'm banning you from that article and that talk page. Raul654 ( talk) 19:30, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I notice that, as of today, the "Age Template" is one years old... I don't know what language Wikipedia is written in, but there must be an easy way to fix that!-- 81.62.98.254 ( talk) 15:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Ed, R. fiend has stated that he's voluntarily resigning as an admin, which pretty much short circuits the whole ArbCom case. I discussed this case with an Arbitration clerk, who stated since R. fiend officially apologized for the block and stated that his block of you was without merit or reason (pretty much), that one thing you could point to is if someone placed a one second block on your account stating User:R. fiend's block of User:Ed Poor was in error, and this block should not be held against User:Ed Poor's record. If that is an option, would you be ok with it? SirFozzie ( talk) 03:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll check my block log for it. -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 01:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Ed, I undid your comment to ScienceApologist as you blanked his "essay". In case you hadn't noticed, he's been quite active today - so a bit premature to bid farewell methinks. You may re-add your comment, but please don't delete his content. Vsmith ( talk) 00:46, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
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>(one of the oldest members of Wikipedia - dating back to 2001).
For your old age, you are mighty humble, hunk-ed. There was no need of you to say but thanks. -- Lucyintheskywithdada ( talk) 08:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Steve Dufour ( talk) 23:21, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Glad you like arpeggiato. Interesting that it is was not well represented already. I made a couple of redirects to sort all that out.
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Thought you might want to apply a little scrutiny to what David Limbaugh actually said. Paragraphs six and seven...note the weasle worded way he implies that the stuff he found was on the NEA web site, when in fact it was not on the NEA site, it was FOUR links away from NEA!!!! (I added the (*) numbers inline, for clarity...
Limbaugh:
"Then I clicked on a number of links that purported to offer guidance on such questions as "Why do so many people around the world hate America" and invariably was taken to (1) "Moving Ideas," an online magazine of the (2) Policy Action Network, a (3) "project of The American Prospect Magazine."
"The (3) American Prospect is referred to by (4) www.turnleft.com, the self-described "home of liberalism on the Web," as "A magazine on American politics and society with emphasis on public policy from a liberal perspective." "Moving Ideas" boasts of being the online magazine that "posts the best ideas and resources from leading progressive research and advocacy institutions."
Surprised you missed this, see how slippery these guys are? But thanks for the material, I'm sure SOME intrepid journalist caught Limbaugh's dissembling, now I just need to summarize it and put it up!!!... ;-}
I learned the word despicable from watching Daffy Duck on TV as a boy. I guess we both would agree with Rev. Moon on one thing: that honesty comes first. [16]
It is natural, when a man appears claiming to speak for God, that people would subject him to intense scrutiny. It happened to Jesus: "How can your master be the Christ, when he eats and drinks ... Doesn't he know what manner of woman this is? ... He makes himself God ..." Etc.
For me, the bottom line is: how much is my spiritual growth helped by following someone's teachings, example, and/or organization?
Anyway, we Moonies are taught to "love our enemies" and also be polite when online. :-) -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 02:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Some things return to haunt you. An old action of yours is quite legendary and was considered worthy of inclusion on WP:Village stocks, so I now present you with the following "award". :-) Gwinva ( talk) 02:19, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
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Ed have you thought about archiving your talk page? Balloonman ( talk) 05:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)