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Thanks for your very helpful comments! I have to confess that I did feel crummy about leaving all those unsightly "fact" tags everywhere, but I did it, in part, because I was getting ever more frustrated about having anything and everything I added swiftly removed by Freedom skies (and before him another editor). The funny thing is that I can actually provide better citations for many of the Vedic Mathematics' less ludicrous claims than the ones currently there. Maybe that could be an area for cooperation (in light of your suggestions). I'll try to address it on the talk page. Thanks again for taking the time to be so helpful! Fowler&fowler «Talk» 22:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I've reverted your edits at Martian global warming because they went against the Articles for Deletion discussion, which had no clear consensus and thus resulted in a keep by default. If you would like a second hearing, please appeal the AFD at Deletion Review. Thanks and happy editing! -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:26, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I have carfted a version for Indian mathematics. The version can be accessed here.
Kindly compare the version with the present Indian mathematics article, the version which to which I edited earlier and the version prior to my involvement:-
I have:-
It would be helpful if you voiced your opinion on which version to keep. Please forgive the minor mistakes, if any, in grammer and puncuation. Since some editors have been aggressive and meanacing, I have had the uncharecteristic inclination to work on Wikipedia through my exams and I will make a check for these mistakes. Regards, Freedom skies| talk 04:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Greetings, I was involved in the RfC in Indian mathematics. My efforts were directed towards creating a version such as this one, as compared to the this, this and this version. My efforts initially began with removing misrepresentation of quotaions and then I tried providing some of the "citations needed" tags with actual citations. The situation resulted into an RfC, timed during my examinations, to which I could admittedly, not work on adequately. Fowler&fowler has asked me to work with him but since I am sitting my examinations and the article has been edited extensively since the RfC by other editors I no longer can keep up the pace. My exams will continue and after that I will be leaving, taking a few days off WP. I have reviewed my future with the Indian mathematics article, and have come to the conclusion that since I am under time constraints and am under such pressure in real life that adequate responses or editing actions on "Indian mathematics" are just not possible for me right now. I can't contribute to it in the manner that I usually would; it would be unethical to the extreme to ask the other editors, who have wished me well during my examination, to wait. The article is under the watch of many good editors and I see and hope that it's quality benefits from the present situation. Many regards, Freedom skies| talk 02:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the consult. I agree that the cleanup tag can be removed. Oren0 01:19, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you; you're entirely too kind. Good luck with your FAC nomination. — RJH ( talk) 19:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
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You made an entry on my sandbox stating that temperature data was readily available [1] and on the Talk page you promised a citation. [2] You have not provided one. Indeed it would be difficult to provide a relevant citation since the information being requested has not been made available. You can read comment #43 on this thread to learn more about the issue of unarchived data. [3] If work is to be called science, the researcher must archive his data and his methods. Information must include not just the raw data, but also what stations were used and what information was relied on regarding the history of the stations. Auditors will want to know if the data was homogeneous or not and whether the data was treated as homogeneous or not and what adjustments were made. Phil Jones has not provided this information and is still not cooperating with requests for it. The auditors involved are fully expecting to have to file a lawsuit to get the required information. These are the facts as I know them. I am going to remove your entry for the time being. RonCram 03:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Can you explain why you undid this revision please? http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Exploration_of_Mars&diff=113681202&oldid=113289366 Thanks in advance, -- 82.41.42.96 12:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Mmm... I'd guess it's more applicable to geology, as it could be a wide-spread phenomenon. Geography seems to be more about map-making and individual, named features. Thanks. — RJH ( talk) 21:18, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I've requested an arbitration regarding the conduct of Freedom skies.
Can I trouble you to write a brief statement at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Freedom skies about your impressions of Freedom skies' edits and conduct?
A brief recounting of your comments at Talk:Indian mathematics and will suffice.
Thank you.
JFD 05:17, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Freedom skies. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Freedom skies/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Freedom skies/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, - Penwhale | Blast him / Follow his steps 02:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually, upon further research, the previous edit may have been right. I based my edit on the reading of a scholarly article that now seems to have been an "in-between" between the old story of countrywide panic and what seems to be the current story in vogue - that people were scared and uneasy, but hardly "panicked". In short - I was wrong:
“ | Some researchers now doubt the estimate of nearly one million hysterical listeners. And early reports of deaths from stampedes, traffic deaths, and suicides were false. Nevertheless, many were clearly frightened. "Fake Radio ÔWar' Stirs Terror Through U.S.," reported the next day's New York Daily News. For example, one college senior told how he had been on a date and returned to his girlfriend's place to rescue her: "One of the first things I did was to try to phone my girl in Poughkeepsie, but the lines were all busy, so that just confirmed my impression that the thing was true. We started driving back to Poughkeepsie. We had heard that Princeton was wiped out and gas and fire were spreading over New Jersey, so I figured there wasn't anything to do -- we figured our friends and families were all dead. I made the forty-five miles in thirty-five minutes and didn't even realize it. I drove right through Newburgh and never even knew I went through it. I don't know why we weren't killed. . . . The gas was supposed to be spreading up north. I didn't have any idea exactly what I was fleeing from, and that made me all the more afraid. . . . I thought the whole human race was going to be wiped out -- that seemed more important than the fact that we were going to die." | ” |
( http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/050722_war_world.html )
So, thank you for your diligence, and I'm sorry for a bad edit. Throw 'er back in, I guess - and there's a free cite from a Ph.D for your troubles! -- Action Jackson IV 19:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your good intentions at removing what you thought was vandalism; however, the former Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador really was found by police drunk and naked except for a bra and bondage gear and with a dildo shoved up his ass. This is why he is no longer the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador.
Check the BBC links. DS 00:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Re your edit [20], phycology, phycological etc... the study of algae, you must be learning a lot with this bot project of yours, good luck :) sbandrews ( t) 11:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
The source was a 1924 book on the Berlin-Bagdad railway. Published by Yale Univ. Press.
That article should probably be merged with the Berlin-Baghdad artikle.
Any ideas for expansion on "US Energy Policy."
There does not seem to be a forum for basic facts.
ie tons of coal, oil, electricity, used annually in the US. tons of Co2 per capita or nationally put out.
Basic numbers y'now. Key polluters, bad industries. etc etc —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sfsorrow2 ( talk • contribs) 01:42, 31 March 2007 (UTC).
No the Baghdad RR was from Janke 1917, I checked the wiki site. It has been greatly updated. My mistake. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sfsorrow2 ( talk • contribs) 16:09, 31 March 2007 (UTC).
Well, it doesn't look like proper process was followed in nominating a group of articles. And I don't think he should have renominated it the morning after I closed it, if his only suggestion is to transwiki it without naming what wiki he wants it moved to. But it does appear that some issues have been raised on the page for some time. If you want them to be kept, you could try to improve them according to the problems addressed on the talk pages and AfDs.-- Cúchullain t/ c 19:29, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
"Good God" is a profanity? john k 13:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Bleh, sorry about that; seems like I inadvertenly blanked some sections there. Kirill Lokshin 14:51, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Sbandrews
Tks :)
But.. what blue background ?
The color is light ocre.. I made like that after seeing some articles on the Feauture Content.
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Hi Sbandrews, I finally have some time to start doing a major revision of the page, which I had originally planned to do much earlier (after the RfC in March). I hope you'll have some time to look in every now and then and offer criticism. Regards, Fowler&fowler «Talk» 01:17, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Sbandrews. Since you made the initial change without any rationale beyond "pointless wikilinks", I think you should express your concerns on the talk page before reverting further. Do you have any reason to remove the red links other than for aesthetic purposes? Mgiganteus1 15:26, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, are you still intending to add detail to this redirect? It is creating a circular link on vorticella and should otherwise be speedy deleted... regards, sbandrews ( t) 22:08, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hi SB. In case you've not dropped by lately, I've been doing a lot of work on the portal over the past week and, with the exception of adding another couple of selected articles, and a few minor adjustments, I think its ready for featured status. Perhaps you can take a look? Gralo 01:21, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
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Dear sb, thank you for the interesting web link about this. Helped me think more carefully about the relationship between ecology and biology. I have removed from ecological economics the term 'biology', just leaving 'economics' and 'ecology'. Both are wikilinked, and so if anyone wants to know more about 'ecology', for example, they could click on the wikilink. That should solve the problem. What do you think? AppleJuggler 01:01, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Would like like to do a portal review for Portal:Environment? Thanks. OhanaUnited Talk page 15:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Dear Sbandrews:
I think if you review Albertini and others you will find that the 6 assassins overseen by Danilo Ilic were irredentists, not separatists. Several history texts on this subject refer to them as irredentists, and I have not found any texts using the word separatist to describe them. It conveys the wrong impression that this was a revolutionary movement for an independent Bosnia-Herzegovina which it was not. Chief of Serbia Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrievic was behind the operation and his goal clearly was that of a Greater Serbia. The assassins themselves had various and sometimes not entirely clear objectives but all wanted Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia to be in a common state (even the anarchists wanted a state which I find strange), whether that be a Yugoslavia, a Greater Serbia, or some other amalgamation of states and provinces.
The link you put in for irredentist has a slightly more restrictive meaning than the dictionaries on my desk. Is that the best link?
Werchovsky — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.110.32.132 ( talk) 23:17, 29 June 2007
I think the reason you don't get many hits for Princip "irredentist" is because the word "irredentist" is out of vogue. I tried a similar search on the Irish Republican Army and got 100X more hits for separatism than irredentism, and then simply on those words with a ratio of about 15X. Irredentism is however, a very accurate and appropriate word in the context of the assassination of Franz-Ferdinand. It followed on the heals of Italian irredentism against Austria-Hungary. The conspirators did not seek an independent Bosnia-Herzegovina, but one unified with Serbia. The result was indeed the creation of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croates and Slovenes under a Serbian Sovereign. There is a somewhat subtle warguilt distinction between the two words. The assassination planning and facilitization by members of the Serbian Military is a slightly more aggregious crime when the motives include territorial engrandizement of Serbia in addition to the dismemberment of a neighbor. Werchovsky 21:08, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Upon further inspection of edit histories, it seems I got the times a bit mixed up, and the editor didn't use an alternate IP or proxy to evade a block. A mistake on my part. However, the fact remains that the editor has threatened to use such tactics to evade any blocks. -- Madchester 17:08, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing this up. Any lessons learned on how to handle such situations?
How bad is the behavior? In the Barrett-related articles there was an editor with clear COI problems who other editors rallied behind until the editor was brought to an ArbCom and banned for making attacks during it.
Additionally, there are BLP issues. Just a year ago, long before I did any editing to the articles, editors were still making openly hostile statements against Barrett, and using those statements as supporting arguments for including critical material in the article. Sadly, it is one of those editors that is behind the current dispute which has been dragged out for over three months. -- Ronz 19:07, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi sbandrews. I notice you're active on the Wikiquette alerts page, so I was wondering if I could ask for some assistance in the matter between myself and JAF1970. I filed an alert on that page, as well as a request for informal mediation (which blew up into a really big argument), and went on to file an ArbCom request (which looks like it will be declined for being premature). So far, I've only gotten two replies from any mediators on this topic, none in Wikiquette alerts, and while JAF hasn't posted for a little while, I'm afraid things are just going to continue when he does return to WP. I'd like to take as many steps as possible to get this situation resolved.
Any help? — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 17:05, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Kiefer, sorry I somehow missed your post [21] on WQA, but it looks like Parzival has covered everything and you seem to be doing all the right things yourself. I note that you have archived the offending sections of Pac Man CE, a good idea, are you happy with the way things stand now? Oh and while I'm at it, thanks for all your hard work on WQA, its been very pleasing to see so many active editors really proving that the concept can work, especially since none of us are admins, justice for the people by the people :), sbandrews ( t) 08:14, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Yes, let sleeping dogs lie... If its any consolation I've had mud thrown at me before on wiki, and like you I was offended at the time, but now looking back however I'm proud that I stood up to the flack when I thought I was doing the right thing, and I'm glad that there is a permanent record in the talk archives of what I and others said. Good for you editing the guidelines, that's something I've not done yet :) luego amigo, sbandrews ( t) 18:56, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Sbandrews... I've been aware of your work at WP:WQA for a while now, and wanted you to know that your efforts have been making a real difference. You have a way of offering positive advice based on understanding how people can get along with each other better - that's good to see. A lot of times the users who have been helped don't say thanks to the Wikiquette volunteers.Maybe they don't even realize until later how much difference the advice has made, probably because we don't do obvious stuff like blocking or warning or issuing formal statements, or whatever. Our work is more subtle, guiding people back onto the collaboration track when they've gotten derailed. Sometimes there are editors so disruptive that we can't help and administors have to be brought in or arbitration, etc, but most of the time, as you've seen, that's not needed, and a bit of wisdom and perspective can go a long way.
Well, anyway,... I Just wanted to stop by and say hello, and let you know that your work is appreciated. You're welcome to move the barnstar to your user page if you like, do with it whatever you please. -- Parzival418 Hello 20:12, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
These are very difficult terms to use and apply, with no really fixed meaning. As an example, take human growth hormone. This is a short protein that acts as a signal in the human body. This is a "natural" molecule as it exists in nature. However, exact copies of the hormone can be made in the lab, so you can have "synthetic" copies of the natural hormone that have precisely the same properties as the hormone found in the body. If you change the structure of the hormone a little bit, you will have an "artificial" version of the hormone that may or may not have the same properties as the "natural" hormone.
Other animals have slightly different versions of growth hormone, so if the "natural" molecule cow growth hormone entered the human body, it would become an "unnatural" addition to our bodies. (In biochemistry we would call it a xenobiotic.) Equally, human hormones in cows would be natural molecules, but in an unnatural situation.
I think the hormones used in agriculture are synthetic copies of the natural hormones, so identical in chemistry and biochemistry, but different in origin. Calling one molecule "artificial" and one "natural" is a difficult statement to justify, and not very clear. All the best Tim Vickers 15:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Sbandrews. “Entente cordiale” being french i have applied the french typography rules which state that as “cordiale” is an adjective it doesn't have an uppercase letter. The french article uses the correct spelling (which is not always the case though). Med 16:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
I made this, is it good ? I will have to delete some of this propositions, since the context of an RfC don't seems to be what I had believed. This is a first test, and quick and efficient comments are welcome ! -- Yug (talk) 20:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I reverted your change and have responded to it on the talk page. VanTucky (talk) 22:40, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey, so today at Talk:Veganism I saw that you had questioned whether Criticism sections were actually "illegal" or not, and yes, in fact, they are. Per the manual of style (direct link to section here), separating positive and negative information is bad practice and should not be done.-- daniel folsom 22:51, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Oops, sorry. Vsst 23:30, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Sbandrews...
Regarding the situation with Yug and EB,...
I don't want to interfere with the good work you're doing, but I thought you should know about the this inflamatory comment posted by Yug on EB's talk page just yesterday, before the long comment that EB posted at WQA.
While Yug has shown you a side of himself that seems to be improving, at the same time, he provoked EB without telling you. It seems that comment was what lead to EB's response at WQA, where he was so upset he used an expletive. Other than that one word, which was an unfortunate lapse, I did not see his comment as uncivil.
Also, the details EB wrote in his long note at WQA are correct - according to the history pages and his contribs, he has not edited those pages or communicated with Yug at all in the last couple weeks, other than to respond at WQA. So why is Yug still going on about this?
This dispute in now being carried on exclusively by Yug. At first it was hard to see, but now that I've read through the talk pages and history logs, it seems to me, EB was right to file the alert and call this harrassment.
Even when EB was editing those articles, he did not use any uncivil comments at any time in his edit summaries or talk page comments. I read the whole thing and did not see anything improper from him. Maybe I missed something, so if I did, please let me know.
I'm not sure yet if I will post any WQA comments on this, but either way, I wanted to give you this information so you have the whole story. If you already saw it and to you the situation looks different than how it looks to me, then certainly I'm interested in your viewpoint.
From my perspective, it's not just the language difficulty; it's starting to appear there is a real problem with the way Yug is still focused on Exploding Boy, even after EB has disengaged and stayed away from Yug.-- Parzival418 Hello 03:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
You deleted a sentence of mine (+reference) from hydrogen-like atoms. This sentence carried information that you admittedly didn't understand too well. At some length I explained to you what it meant. I see that you worry about "Wikiquette". Wouldn't you agree that it would be a polite thing to do for you to reinsert my sentence? Would you not agree that, if all Wikipedians deleted all sentences they don't understand too well, the size and usefulness of Wikipedia would go to zero? -- P.wormer 16:09, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Dear Sbandrews:
Back on April 7 you tagged "Causes of World War 1" "unbalanced" and pointed to the discussion section. During that period in the discussion I found a lot of chatter about the proposed Berlin-Bagdad railway and British interests. Is that all resolved now? Can the tag be removed? If not, what needs to be done?
There is of course much controversy over the causes of WW1. When I confined myself to reading general western civ texts, I like most people felt the bulk of the warguilt fell on Germany and to a lesser extent on Russia. But after reading the Entente suppressed confessions of the Salonika 3: Apis' written confession, Vulovic's confession at trial (where the Serbian prosecution tried to block the admission) that also implicated Putnik, Malobabic's confession to a priest just before execution and combining that with "The Blood of Slavism", "Le Crépuscule d’une Autocratie", "Il Dramma di Seraievo", and "Recollections of a Russian Diplomat", "The Road to Sarajevo", "Origins of the War", "The Russian Imperial Conspiracy" and so on, while the spin of blame might vary, the first source facts just kept stacking up against Serbia, Russia, France and Montenegro. In the days surrounding the assassination these countries did not conduct themselves responsibly, lawfully, or truthfully. Each flimsy defense put forward by Entente apologists has fallen apart as suppressed documents or the falsification of documents have come to light and those still trying to defend these powers now seem to fall back on the "We'll likely never know the whole truth." defense. Quite so. These powers elected to destroy, suppress, or simply not maintain records which would normally be kept in the course of business and Serbia, in French Occupied Salonkia, had the three most key witnesses executed on false charges. If this were a trial, the efforts by Serbia, Russia, France and Montenegro to suppress the truth through judicial murder and other means could be used as evidence of the underlying crime and the most negative interpretation against these powers of ambiguous evidence could be used by the trier of fact. Since mine is a minority view, in the articles I try to stick closely to proven facts and footnote them.
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Thanks for your very helpful comments! I have to confess that I did feel crummy about leaving all those unsightly "fact" tags everywhere, but I did it, in part, because I was getting ever more frustrated about having anything and everything I added swiftly removed by Freedom skies (and before him another editor). The funny thing is that I can actually provide better citations for many of the Vedic Mathematics' less ludicrous claims than the ones currently there. Maybe that could be an area for cooperation (in light of your suggestions). I'll try to address it on the talk page. Thanks again for taking the time to be so helpful! Fowler&fowler «Talk» 22:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I've reverted your edits at Martian global warming because they went against the Articles for Deletion discussion, which had no clear consensus and thus resulted in a keep by default. If you would like a second hearing, please appeal the AFD at Deletion Review. Thanks and happy editing! -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:26, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I have carfted a version for Indian mathematics. The version can be accessed here.
Kindly compare the version with the present Indian mathematics article, the version which to which I edited earlier and the version prior to my involvement:-
I have:-
It would be helpful if you voiced your opinion on which version to keep. Please forgive the minor mistakes, if any, in grammer and puncuation. Since some editors have been aggressive and meanacing, I have had the uncharecteristic inclination to work on Wikipedia through my exams and I will make a check for these mistakes. Regards, Freedom skies| talk 04:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Greetings, I was involved in the RfC in Indian mathematics. My efforts were directed towards creating a version such as this one, as compared to the this, this and this version. My efforts initially began with removing misrepresentation of quotaions and then I tried providing some of the "citations needed" tags with actual citations. The situation resulted into an RfC, timed during my examinations, to which I could admittedly, not work on adequately. Fowler&fowler has asked me to work with him but since I am sitting my examinations and the article has been edited extensively since the RfC by other editors I no longer can keep up the pace. My exams will continue and after that I will be leaving, taking a few days off WP. I have reviewed my future with the Indian mathematics article, and have come to the conclusion that since I am under time constraints and am under such pressure in real life that adequate responses or editing actions on "Indian mathematics" are just not possible for me right now. I can't contribute to it in the manner that I usually would; it would be unethical to the extreme to ask the other editors, who have wished me well during my examination, to wait. The article is under the watch of many good editors and I see and hope that it's quality benefits from the present situation. Many regards, Freedom skies| talk 02:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the consult. I agree that the cleanup tag can be removed. Oren0 01:19, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you; you're entirely too kind. Good luck with your FAC nomination. — RJH ( talk) 19:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
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You made an entry on my sandbox stating that temperature data was readily available [1] and on the Talk page you promised a citation. [2] You have not provided one. Indeed it would be difficult to provide a relevant citation since the information being requested has not been made available. You can read comment #43 on this thread to learn more about the issue of unarchived data. [3] If work is to be called science, the researcher must archive his data and his methods. Information must include not just the raw data, but also what stations were used and what information was relied on regarding the history of the stations. Auditors will want to know if the data was homogeneous or not and whether the data was treated as homogeneous or not and what adjustments were made. Phil Jones has not provided this information and is still not cooperating with requests for it. The auditors involved are fully expecting to have to file a lawsuit to get the required information. These are the facts as I know them. I am going to remove your entry for the time being. RonCram 03:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Can you explain why you undid this revision please? http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Exploration_of_Mars&diff=113681202&oldid=113289366 Thanks in advance, -- 82.41.42.96 12:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Mmm... I'd guess it's more applicable to geology, as it could be a wide-spread phenomenon. Geography seems to be more about map-making and individual, named features. Thanks. — RJH ( talk) 21:18, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I've requested an arbitration regarding the conduct of Freedom skies.
Can I trouble you to write a brief statement at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Freedom skies about your impressions of Freedom skies' edits and conduct?
A brief recounting of your comments at Talk:Indian mathematics and will suffice.
Thank you.
JFD 05:17, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, - Penwhale | Blast him / Follow his steps 02:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually, upon further research, the previous edit may have been right. I based my edit on the reading of a scholarly article that now seems to have been an "in-between" between the old story of countrywide panic and what seems to be the current story in vogue - that people were scared and uneasy, but hardly "panicked". In short - I was wrong:
“ | Some researchers now doubt the estimate of nearly one million hysterical listeners. And early reports of deaths from stampedes, traffic deaths, and suicides were false. Nevertheless, many were clearly frightened. "Fake Radio ÔWar' Stirs Terror Through U.S.," reported the next day's New York Daily News. For example, one college senior told how he had been on a date and returned to his girlfriend's place to rescue her: "One of the first things I did was to try to phone my girl in Poughkeepsie, but the lines were all busy, so that just confirmed my impression that the thing was true. We started driving back to Poughkeepsie. We had heard that Princeton was wiped out and gas and fire were spreading over New Jersey, so I figured there wasn't anything to do -- we figured our friends and families were all dead. I made the forty-five miles in thirty-five minutes and didn't even realize it. I drove right through Newburgh and never even knew I went through it. I don't know why we weren't killed. . . . The gas was supposed to be spreading up north. I didn't have any idea exactly what I was fleeing from, and that made me all the more afraid. . . . I thought the whole human race was going to be wiped out -- that seemed more important than the fact that we were going to die." | ” |
( http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/050722_war_world.html )
So, thank you for your diligence, and I'm sorry for a bad edit. Throw 'er back in, I guess - and there's a free cite from a Ph.D for your troubles! -- Action Jackson IV 19:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your good intentions at removing what you thought was vandalism; however, the former Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador really was found by police drunk and naked except for a bra and bondage gear and with a dildo shoved up his ass. This is why he is no longer the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador.
Check the BBC links. DS 00:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Re your edit [20], phycology, phycological etc... the study of algae, you must be learning a lot with this bot project of yours, good luck :) sbandrews ( t) 11:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
The source was a 1924 book on the Berlin-Bagdad railway. Published by Yale Univ. Press.
That article should probably be merged with the Berlin-Baghdad artikle.
Any ideas for expansion on "US Energy Policy."
There does not seem to be a forum for basic facts.
ie tons of coal, oil, electricity, used annually in the US. tons of Co2 per capita or nationally put out.
Basic numbers y'now. Key polluters, bad industries. etc etc —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sfsorrow2 ( talk • contribs) 01:42, 31 March 2007 (UTC).
No the Baghdad RR was from Janke 1917, I checked the wiki site. It has been greatly updated. My mistake. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sfsorrow2 ( talk • contribs) 16:09, 31 March 2007 (UTC).
Well, it doesn't look like proper process was followed in nominating a group of articles. And I don't think he should have renominated it the morning after I closed it, if his only suggestion is to transwiki it without naming what wiki he wants it moved to. But it does appear that some issues have been raised on the page for some time. If you want them to be kept, you could try to improve them according to the problems addressed on the talk pages and AfDs.-- Cúchullain t/ c 19:29, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
"Good God" is a profanity? john k 13:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Bleh, sorry about that; seems like I inadvertenly blanked some sections there. Kirill Lokshin 14:51, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Sbandrews, I finally have some time to start doing a major revision of the page, which I had originally planned to do much earlier (after the RfC in March). I hope you'll have some time to look in every now and then and offer criticism. Regards, Fowler&fowler «Talk» 01:17, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Sbandrews. Since you made the initial change without any rationale beyond "pointless wikilinks", I think you should express your concerns on the talk page before reverting further. Do you have any reason to remove the red links other than for aesthetic purposes? Mgiganteus1 15:26, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, are you still intending to add detail to this redirect? It is creating a circular link on vorticella and should otherwise be speedy deleted... regards, sbandrews ( t) 22:08, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
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Dear sb, thank you for the interesting web link about this. Helped me think more carefully about the relationship between ecology and biology. I have removed from ecological economics the term 'biology', just leaving 'economics' and 'ecology'. Both are wikilinked, and so if anyone wants to know more about 'ecology', for example, they could click on the wikilink. That should solve the problem. What do you think? AppleJuggler 01:01, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Would like like to do a portal review for Portal:Environment? Thanks. OhanaUnited Talk page 15:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Dear Sbandrews:
I think if you review Albertini and others you will find that the 6 assassins overseen by Danilo Ilic were irredentists, not separatists. Several history texts on this subject refer to them as irredentists, and I have not found any texts using the word separatist to describe them. It conveys the wrong impression that this was a revolutionary movement for an independent Bosnia-Herzegovina which it was not. Chief of Serbia Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrievic was behind the operation and his goal clearly was that of a Greater Serbia. The assassins themselves had various and sometimes not entirely clear objectives but all wanted Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia to be in a common state (even the anarchists wanted a state which I find strange), whether that be a Yugoslavia, a Greater Serbia, or some other amalgamation of states and provinces.
The link you put in for irredentist has a slightly more restrictive meaning than the dictionaries on my desk. Is that the best link?
Werchovsky — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.110.32.132 ( talk) 23:17, 29 June 2007
I think the reason you don't get many hits for Princip "irredentist" is because the word "irredentist" is out of vogue. I tried a similar search on the Irish Republican Army and got 100X more hits for separatism than irredentism, and then simply on those words with a ratio of about 15X. Irredentism is however, a very accurate and appropriate word in the context of the assassination of Franz-Ferdinand. It followed on the heals of Italian irredentism against Austria-Hungary. The conspirators did not seek an independent Bosnia-Herzegovina, but one unified with Serbia. The result was indeed the creation of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croates and Slovenes under a Serbian Sovereign. There is a somewhat subtle warguilt distinction between the two words. The assassination planning and facilitization by members of the Serbian Military is a slightly more aggregious crime when the motives include territorial engrandizement of Serbia in addition to the dismemberment of a neighbor. Werchovsky 21:08, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Upon further inspection of edit histories, it seems I got the times a bit mixed up, and the editor didn't use an alternate IP or proxy to evade a block. A mistake on my part. However, the fact remains that the editor has threatened to use such tactics to evade any blocks. -- Madchester 17:08, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing this up. Any lessons learned on how to handle such situations?
How bad is the behavior? In the Barrett-related articles there was an editor with clear COI problems who other editors rallied behind until the editor was brought to an ArbCom and banned for making attacks during it.
Additionally, there are BLP issues. Just a year ago, long before I did any editing to the articles, editors were still making openly hostile statements against Barrett, and using those statements as supporting arguments for including critical material in the article. Sadly, it is one of those editors that is behind the current dispute which has been dragged out for over three months. -- Ronz 19:07, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi sbandrews. I notice you're active on the Wikiquette alerts page, so I was wondering if I could ask for some assistance in the matter between myself and JAF1970. I filed an alert on that page, as well as a request for informal mediation (which blew up into a really big argument), and went on to file an ArbCom request (which looks like it will be declined for being premature). So far, I've only gotten two replies from any mediators on this topic, none in Wikiquette alerts, and while JAF hasn't posted for a little while, I'm afraid things are just going to continue when he does return to WP. I'd like to take as many steps as possible to get this situation resolved.
Any help? — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 17:05, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Kiefer, sorry I somehow missed your post [21] on WQA, but it looks like Parzival has covered everything and you seem to be doing all the right things yourself. I note that you have archived the offending sections of Pac Man CE, a good idea, are you happy with the way things stand now? Oh and while I'm at it, thanks for all your hard work on WQA, its been very pleasing to see so many active editors really proving that the concept can work, especially since none of us are admins, justice for the people by the people :), sbandrews ( t) 08:14, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Yes, let sleeping dogs lie... If its any consolation I've had mud thrown at me before on wiki, and like you I was offended at the time, but now looking back however I'm proud that I stood up to the flack when I thought I was doing the right thing, and I'm glad that there is a permanent record in the talk archives of what I and others said. Good for you editing the guidelines, that's something I've not done yet :) luego amigo, sbandrews ( t) 18:56, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Sbandrews... I've been aware of your work at WP:WQA for a while now, and wanted you to know that your efforts have been making a real difference. You have a way of offering positive advice based on understanding how people can get along with each other better - that's good to see. A lot of times the users who have been helped don't say thanks to the Wikiquette volunteers.Maybe they don't even realize until later how much difference the advice has made, probably because we don't do obvious stuff like blocking or warning or issuing formal statements, or whatever. Our work is more subtle, guiding people back onto the collaboration track when they've gotten derailed. Sometimes there are editors so disruptive that we can't help and administors have to be brought in or arbitration, etc, but most of the time, as you've seen, that's not needed, and a bit of wisdom and perspective can go a long way.
Well, anyway,... I Just wanted to stop by and say hello, and let you know that your work is appreciated. You're welcome to move the barnstar to your user page if you like, do with it whatever you please. -- Parzival418 Hello 20:12, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
These are very difficult terms to use and apply, with no really fixed meaning. As an example, take human growth hormone. This is a short protein that acts as a signal in the human body. This is a "natural" molecule as it exists in nature. However, exact copies of the hormone can be made in the lab, so you can have "synthetic" copies of the natural hormone that have precisely the same properties as the hormone found in the body. If you change the structure of the hormone a little bit, you will have an "artificial" version of the hormone that may or may not have the same properties as the "natural" hormone.
Other animals have slightly different versions of growth hormone, so if the "natural" molecule cow growth hormone entered the human body, it would become an "unnatural" addition to our bodies. (In biochemistry we would call it a xenobiotic.) Equally, human hormones in cows would be natural molecules, but in an unnatural situation.
I think the hormones used in agriculture are synthetic copies of the natural hormones, so identical in chemistry and biochemistry, but different in origin. Calling one molecule "artificial" and one "natural" is a difficult statement to justify, and not very clear. All the best Tim Vickers 15:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Sbandrews. “Entente cordiale” being french i have applied the french typography rules which state that as “cordiale” is an adjective it doesn't have an uppercase letter. The french article uses the correct spelling (which is not always the case though). Med 16:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
I made this, is it good ? I will have to delete some of this propositions, since the context of an RfC don't seems to be what I had believed. This is a first test, and quick and efficient comments are welcome ! -- Yug (talk) 20:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I reverted your change and have responded to it on the talk page. VanTucky (talk) 22:40, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey, so today at Talk:Veganism I saw that you had questioned whether Criticism sections were actually "illegal" or not, and yes, in fact, they are. Per the manual of style (direct link to section here), separating positive and negative information is bad practice and should not be done.-- daniel folsom 22:51, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Oops, sorry. Vsst 23:30, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Sbandrews...
Regarding the situation with Yug and EB,...
I don't want to interfere with the good work you're doing, but I thought you should know about the this inflamatory comment posted by Yug on EB's talk page just yesterday, before the long comment that EB posted at WQA.
While Yug has shown you a side of himself that seems to be improving, at the same time, he provoked EB without telling you. It seems that comment was what lead to EB's response at WQA, where he was so upset he used an expletive. Other than that one word, which was an unfortunate lapse, I did not see his comment as uncivil.
Also, the details EB wrote in his long note at WQA are correct - according to the history pages and his contribs, he has not edited those pages or communicated with Yug at all in the last couple weeks, other than to respond at WQA. So why is Yug still going on about this?
This dispute in now being carried on exclusively by Yug. At first it was hard to see, but now that I've read through the talk pages and history logs, it seems to me, EB was right to file the alert and call this harrassment.
Even when EB was editing those articles, he did not use any uncivil comments at any time in his edit summaries or talk page comments. I read the whole thing and did not see anything improper from him. Maybe I missed something, so if I did, please let me know.
I'm not sure yet if I will post any WQA comments on this, but either way, I wanted to give you this information so you have the whole story. If you already saw it and to you the situation looks different than how it looks to me, then certainly I'm interested in your viewpoint.
From my perspective, it's not just the language difficulty; it's starting to appear there is a real problem with the way Yug is still focused on Exploding Boy, even after EB has disengaged and stayed away from Yug.-- Parzival418 Hello 03:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
You deleted a sentence of mine (+reference) from hydrogen-like atoms. This sentence carried information that you admittedly didn't understand too well. At some length I explained to you what it meant. I see that you worry about "Wikiquette". Wouldn't you agree that it would be a polite thing to do for you to reinsert my sentence? Would you not agree that, if all Wikipedians deleted all sentences they don't understand too well, the size and usefulness of Wikipedia would go to zero? -- P.wormer 16:09, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Dear Sbandrews:
Back on April 7 you tagged "Causes of World War 1" "unbalanced" and pointed to the discussion section. During that period in the discussion I found a lot of chatter about the proposed Berlin-Bagdad railway and British interests. Is that all resolved now? Can the tag be removed? If not, what needs to be done?
There is of course much controversy over the causes of WW1. When I confined myself to reading general western civ texts, I like most people felt the bulk of the warguilt fell on Germany and to a lesser extent on Russia. But after reading the Entente suppressed confessions of the Salonika 3: Apis' written confession, Vulovic's confession at trial (where the Serbian prosecution tried to block the admission) that also implicated Putnik, Malobabic's confession to a priest just before execution and combining that with "The Blood of Slavism", "Le Crépuscule d’une Autocratie", "Il Dramma di Seraievo", and "Recollections of a Russian Diplomat", "The Road to Sarajevo", "Origins of the War", "The Russian Imperial Conspiracy" and so on, while the spin of blame might vary, the first source facts just kept stacking up against Serbia, Russia, France and Montenegro. In the days surrounding the assassination these countries did not conduct themselves responsibly, lawfully, or truthfully. Each flimsy defense put forward by Entente apologists has fallen apart as suppressed documents or the falsification of documents have come to light and those still trying to defend these powers now seem to fall back on the "We'll likely never know the whole truth." defense. Quite so. These powers elected to destroy, suppress, or simply not maintain records which would normally be kept in the course of business and Serbia, in French Occupied Salonkia, had the three most key witnesses executed on false charges. If this were a trial, the efforts by Serbia, Russia, France and Montenegro to suppress the truth through judicial murder and other means could be used as evidence of the underlying crime and the most negative interpretation against these powers of ambiguous evidence could be used by the trier of fact. Since mine is a minority view, in the articles I try to stick closely to proven facts and footnote them.
Werchovsky 22:01, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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