Hi Andrew, I'm Yla, I'm also a social psychologist. Thanks for taking the time to explain why you reverted my edits to Social identity theory. One of the largest problems Wikipedia faces is attracting new editors. Having your first changes to Wikipedia reverted, as you did to mine, can be very discouraging. It's important that you go beyond simply explaining your reasoning though. Before commenting on my page it would have been good to check something about me. I list that I am new user on my userpage, if you look at my history you'll see that this was my first edit to Wikipedia. I understand if you don't have the time for that. But it's still critical to be friendly, to introduce yourself, and to be supportive to everyone in order to make Wikipedia a community that is welcoming.
Why don't we work together to improve Social Identity Theory beyond a C quality score? There are a number of changes that need to be made. Here are the first few changes that I plan on working on:
-The intro two paragraphs need to be substantially rewritten so that they are accessible to a general audience. Look at the first two sentences. If you knew nothing about psychology it would be very difficult to understand. What is a self-concept? what is relevant? what is intergroup? It is not enough to link to other Wikipedia pages, you need to explain these in general terms (see Object permanence for a good example of an intro to a psychology article quality rating Good). This is how I was trying to change the article. The basic idea of social identity theory is that "Social identity theory first proposed that people come to understand and define themselves, in part, as members of social groups." If you dislike that I said they were the first to propose it when you think it's possible others discussed this concept before they did okay. Let's change the language to not say they are the first, but still to describe the theory in more accessible general way. Here is a reference describing social identity theory in a similar way to the way I did (it won't let me link to site but google search for Reicher, Spears, Haslam (2010) The social identity approach in social psychology. Sage Identities Handbook).
- Next, the article needs to begin by discussing the original work that brought about social identity theory-- the minimum group paradigm. This will help people understand where the theory came from and what it means by giving a concrete example. After they understand it then we can get into the specifics of the theory, what now appears first (aspects of the theory). See Stereotype threat which is a good example of this and good quality rating. It first explains stereotype threat by explaining the original experiments. Once the reader understands the concepts, he or she is ready to understand the specifics and all the work that's come later.
I could use your help because I'm not familiar with some of the specifics of Wikipedia writing (e.g. like what needs citations and what doesn't).
Yla Tausczik ( talk) 14:52, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Kerfuffler. U3964057, thanks for creating Common ingroup identity!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. All of the sources share an author. Surely someone else has done research on this if it's notable?
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.
I'd probably just want to close this for now to give you more time to improve it and address issues on your own timeframe. Just checking with you first to let you know re progression at the subpage. Cheers, — Cirt ( talk) 22:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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H Andrew,
My name is YVasquez and I am part of the APS wikipedia initiative. I revised the Asch Conformity Experiments article as part of a course requirement for my Ph.D. program. I was wondering if you could explain a bit more what you meant by the following "The Asch conformity experiments demonstrated that uncertainty can arise as an outcome of social reality testing. In relation, this inconsistency has been used to support the position that the theoretical distinction between social reality testing and physical reality testing, as well as the distinction between informational influence and normative influence, are untenable." I googled these sentences and they appeared verbatim over the web. Can you tell me what this means (in your own words)? Thank you so much for helping with my recent edits! I greatly appreciate your input! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yvasquez ( talk • contribs) 07:22, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your work undoing vandalism and suspicious edits on various psychology articles. There are very few people doing this, and it's much appreciated. MartinPoulter ( talk) 22:45, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Please note that this review has been now opened for a week and if may be closed soon due to no action. As I have not notified you before, I'll give you a second extra week to become involved. Cheers, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:44, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
May I invite you to join the ranks of Wikipedia:SOCIO#Participants? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:21, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
I notice you have blanked a long-standing, sourced, consensus version of this article three times now, [2], [3], and [4], replacing it with the Muslim Tamil-in-exile version, without any explanation and without engaging on the talk page. Please note that user:SinhaYugaya, who has been blocked several times for edit warring on Sri Lanka topics, also removed the consensus version without explanation [5] [6] [7] [8]. The first blanking of this article was done here by another user who edits exclusively in sri Lanka and Tamil topics, user:Obi2canibe who removed it completely without explanation and replaced it with a Muslim version. The neutrality of this version was challenged on the talk page here here and here.
Please get consensus for your edits on the talk page before removing sourced and unchallenged material and restoring this problematic and challenged version yet again. 203.81.67.127 ( talk) 05:59, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
"Wikipedia's voice". Not an "alternate view", this is policy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.175.184.102 ( talk) 08:45, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry I haven't replied earlier to your points on the BBS talk page, been busy with other things. I am happy for you to change/remove "extremist" from the lead, particularly as the anon editors seem to be using it as an excuse to remove the rest of the article.-- obi2canibe talk contr 14:39, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Sockpuppet investigations Mbrahmana. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 18:52, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Andrew: Thanks for communicating with me openly and directly about the issue. Forgive my initial 'ignorance' regarding the applicable guidelines for the 'further reading' section. My assumption regarding content additions was misguided by judging similar additions to the EE page. Allow me to respond to one of the red flags you have raised: The pages I added do not exist primarily to sell products or services; the content on the pages is content that was published in HR industry publications (i.e., HR Reporter and T+D Magazine). Given the publication media, I thought these additions would be of value.
Regarding the other red flags, I'd say they were raised by my being misinformed on the specific policies. For example, I wasn't aware that articles in 'further readings' were required to comprehensively cover subject matter; since the added publications were directly related to topics of discussion on employee engagement, I assumed them relevant and useful.
I'm happy to follow the implied suggestion in your third point and craft relevant, original content based on the subject matter in the pages I attempted to add to the further readings section. Would that resolve the issue?
Thanks again for being open and understanding. I look forward to discussing this further. User:Rshydn Rshydn ( talk) 04:52, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
You deleted an external link for being "too niche". The link is by all measures comparable to the already-existing link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; the two should stand or fall together. Indeed, the deleted link is less niche than many of the preserved links (it addresses both philosophical and scientific aspects of altruism).
Could you please either explain your action, or undo it (or adopt a consistent editorial hand)?
Thank you for your consideration. Aubrey Bardo ( talk) 20:49, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I wrote a message regarding your reversion over at Talk:List of cognitive biases#Identified victim bias and would appreciate a response. Thanks. Vectro ( talk) 13:27, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi U3964057, and thank you for your contributions to Altruism. Recently, you reverted the addition of a section. Editors in good faith generally appreciate communication when you find their contributions problematic, particularly when you intend to or do undo them.
Reverting a good faith contribution is acceptable, but editors reverting are expected to explain their decision. If the explanation is complex, using the article's talk page may be warranted. If a change brings improvements and regressions, the 2 should be weighted. If the regressions are smaller, it is best to fix them, or to report them. If a change doesn't bring a regression but could have been better, the change should be kept, but you can of course improve upon it, or report the improvement possible.
As for the above case, you commented the change with "The concern isn't lack of detail. It is lack of integration (as well as undue weight). Please attend to the psychology section.". This comment was related to your comment in the reversion performed during the section's redaction, "Content not integrated with extant article.". These comments suggest you considered that the content added would have been more appropriate elsewhere, apparently in the Psychology section. You are free to move content in an article. In this case though, note that the content's location was carefully considered. Unfortunately, the content is as much related to evolution as to psychology, so I'm afraid Psychology wouldn't be the right location. However, I did end up creating a new section after giving up on finding an appropriate existing location. I also feel something is wrong in the article's structure, but I can't picture how it should be. I encourage you to open a discussion on the article's talk page if you can't find a location which pleases you. -- Chealer ( talk) 05:02, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear Andrew,
Thanks for reviewing my edits in the following articles:
The main purpose of editing these articles is to share the additional knowledge i gained while writing my thesis on topic of Change management in an organization under Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl, Chair of General Management and Information Systems at the University of Mannheim. All the text entered by me is from reliable and genuine sources which are clearly cited in the text. This topic is researched a lot these days and I felt that the data existing on Wikipedia is missing some important points which can be of use to our readers. I assure you that data entered is for enriching and improving the encyclopedia coverage on these topics. All the articles selected are related to my research topic. Please note that this is not related to any spamming activity. I am open for discussion on the constructive contributions and come up with a common understanding of the additional text. Looking forward to create and add something valuable for our Wikipedia Users.
Best Regards,
Shilpy Bajaj(Student of Mannheim Business school)
Shilpy Bajaj ( talk) 16:17, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Re: Potential SPAM issues
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your comment and feedback on my edits. Firstly, regarding the contribution history, I have recently created my user account here since I always had a wish to post on Wikipedia. Now, while pursuing my MBA and working on my Master Thesis I came across several experts on the topic of my research and Master Thesis. I found the subject articles to be most-relevant where I could contribute constructively from my research work. Hence, the edits have started now and I would continue posting on topics of my interest (wherever I find that I could discuss and contribute).
Secondly, regarding the content, I came across several publications from several well-known authors to certain industry experts from the Management Consulting industry who have posted several articles on this topic. Hence, I have used these sources to cite the content that I posted. Please let me know and I am happy to collaborate to make something constructive out of it. Thanks! Best Regards, Pawan ( talk)17:07, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Dear U3964057 or Andrew,
It is very good that you wrote on your user page about your background; ‘ social psychology’.
You reverted 8 or 9 edits that I did on some subjects. And your reason was ‘relevance too vague’.
[Obviously] I am not aware how deep your ‘social psychology’ background is. And this is not a big issue. Because you’ve already written [on your user page] that and it is clear you are honest, you do know something [or a lot of things; maybe in the academic manner, too] about ‘ consciousness’, ‘ cognitive bias’ and etc.
I am not trying [and am not going to] to defend myself. I just want to know:
There are hundreds of experiments but I will write here a common one, which I think you also know well, ‘ Solomon Asch conformity experiments’.
Many support this experiment and many perceive it very controversial.
It is clear that ‘ Elephant in the room’ is an idiom. There is not [or I haven’t learnt yet] a scientific experiment to raise this ‘idiom’ to an ‘experiment’ status [as Mr. Asch did].
My point is not to create a portable laboratory [on this ‘wikipedia message board’] to decide immediately what we will do about the aforementioned idiom.
Closer to the fact, I am not trying to ‘promote’ its status to scientific league and leave.
Especially for these wiki pages: ‘ Bandwagon effect’, ‘ Bystander effect’, ‘ Groupthink’, ‘ Group behaviour’, ‘ Collective behavior’, ‘ List of cognitive biases’ and ‘ Conformity’; have you thought that these 7 wiki titles are strictly definitive areas and the ‘Elephant in the room’ idiom is a kind of randomly-changing attitude so this idiom is not relevant to those wiki pages? Many titles can be eliminated [and many adequate categories, which I don’t know, can be added] but I think for some, the idiom seems relevant.
Repeating one more time, I do not intend at all to be offensive. I just want to learn.
P.S. Not directly related to our subject above, I genuinely understand your approach on ‘scientific manner in -free- wikipedia world’ and ‘trying to be a little more open-minded about the experts who try to put so much effort to make solid encyclopedic articles on many specific wiki pages’.
A few weeks ago, I had some conversations with some wikipedians on Larry Sanger. Unfortunately, the majority of them, almost, jumped on me why I mentioned his name. They have been thinking that Mr. Sanger made many ‘bad!’ contributions after the wikipedia had been founded, almost ‘betrayed!’ its core values, so even his name must not be in any part of the wikipedia.
The spark was this link I gave as a reference [about ‘scientific manner’ and ‘the experts’ issue; not ‘elitism / anti-elitism’ conflict] http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25 written by Larry Sanger in 2004. -- Toksoz ( talk) 12:47, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
My copy edit helped the readability of the article by removing useless words, condensing sentence structure, and replacing passive voice with active voice; my decisions accord to the Wikipedia Copy Editing Guide and therefore should remain. For example, I rewrote a sentence that began with "It is..." because the pronoun "It" in that sentence lacked an antecedent. If you would like more information about copy editing, then read the Copy Editing Guide, and if you would like more about my edit, then please send me a message. I will revert your reversion simply so that I will not forget to later so do.
-Duxwing — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duxwing ( talk • contribs) 20:40, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
I lack faith in my "abilities": I make each edit because I think that it will improve the page, and I will therefore integrate your helpful notes into my second attempt. If you would like to send more of them to improve my lay understanding of psychology, then please do!
If to age is to callous over one's sympathy, then I shall remain a I child forever. ( talk) 20:26, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Dear Andrew,
I saw that you just undid twice my edit on the 14th Dalai Lama. I have no desire of edit warring with you. However, please give a good reason for undoing my edits. As far as I can tell, the references used strongly support the added content and came from credible sources. I assure you that there is an abundance of hard evidence for the added content, enough that it would be very difficult to deny on plausible grounds.
Please let me explain briefly why I had added the following:
"However, many have condemned the Dalai Lama for hypocritically promoting "peace" worldwide as a means to regain power over Tibet. Until emancipation in 1959, the Dalai Lama ruled Tibet as a theocratic dictatorship, with over ninety percent of the population living as serfs in a feudalistic system of involuntary servitude.[4] In addition, the Dalai Lama received funding from the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s to engage in separatist activity against China.[5]"
Many including myself believe that the wiki page gave a very one-sided view of the Dalai Lama. While the Dalai Lama is admired by many, there are also plenty of others who despise him for precisely these reasons. Like everything in the article lead, the fact that the Tibet had been a feudal serf society prior to Chinese intervention and that the Dalai Lama received CIA funding to organize uprisings against China is much representative of the Dalai Lama's life, and hence, it should be included. I would also like to make the point that no religious leader, including the Dalai Lama, should be beyond objective criticism.
It would be greatly appreciated if you justify to me why the above content merits deletion from the Dalai Lama's wiki page.
Best,
Tomathan — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Tomathan (
talk •
contribs) 05:59, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Andrew,
You recently added a notice of edit warring to my talk page, during what you perceive as an "edit war" between you and me :
As previously discussed, I don't think this notice is warranted (although, as I explained, "edit warring" is never black or white). Having said that, whether edit warring is happening or not, posting such a notice yourself is probably not appropriate (see Wikipedia:Edit_warring#What_to_do_if_you_see_edit-warring_behavior). -- Chealer ( talk) 17:48, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
You started the reverts first. So far you did two reverts. I did one. You should have followed this first. I already put the issue on the TP page. 124.149.121.142 ( talk) 00:15, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
It looks like you got plenty of complain for reverting others. B in BRD does not mean you can make false claim about the edit of others R does not mean you can revert without research into the sources D does not mean you can revert edits but not participate the discussion on the TP 124.149.121.142 ( talk) 00:39, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Jennifer and I'm a third-year PhD student studying psychological science and quantitative methods. I'm writing to inquire why you undid my revisions to the "minimal group paradigm" page. I feel that my additions bring valuable information to the Wikipedia community, and I have provided the citations from a renowned social psychology textbook. I am currently editing Wikipedia pages as a part of a social psychology course, and I am curious to know why you have undone practically all of my changes, rather than suggesting meaningful edits so that we may collaborate to improve pages.
Jenyih ( talk) 05:40, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear friend. Feminist French psychoanalysis is a field that vastly changed the current horizons in psychoanalysis. It is recognized for almost half a century. I think that it is very valuable that the Wikipedia readers will be aware of this tendency. Many psychoanalysts today will agree, thanks to the efforts of French feminist psychoanalysts, that the psychoanalysis issued from Freud onwards was paternalistic and that its insistance on the phallic paradigm was disastrous to women. I think that this must be reflected in the page. I know that for the moment the section is not sufficient, but it is important to start. Others can continue slowly and build the whole mini chapter. More names should be added, mainly from the American field of psychoanalysis, but my hope is that others will join the effort. I will appreciate if you will contribute in helping to build this chapter. It is time to take this direction out of the limited "feminist" section. . Best wishes Artethical ( talk) 11:05, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Andrew, I recently revised the lead section of Group cohesiveness. Thanks for your conscientious attention to this article. My initial concern about this section is that the lead sentence deviates unnecessarily from the first guideline of WP:LEADSENTENCE. I think this is a good guideline because it advocates a clear and direct synopsis. I hope you can help.
In this particular case, making the headword the subject of the lead sentence can immediately establish the relationship between cohesiveness and cohesion. The article seems to lose track of which of these subtly different concepts is the topic. I, a layperson, assume that cohesiveness is a meta-property summing all the necessary and sufficient prerequisites (behaviours, qualities, dynamics) by which individuals achieve a state called group cohesion, but the lead section avoids explicating this fundamental relationship.
Although the second sentence equivocates, I learn from it that these necessary and sufficient conditions probably are social relations, task relations, perceived unity, and emotions, but the meanings and relationships of these terms are missing. I assume that (social relations) + (task relations) + (perceived unity) + (emotions)
is not the formula for group cohesion, because "relations" can either be prososocial or antisocial, and I doubt just any old emotions will do. So the lead section hides the relationship between cohesiveness and cohesion in a
black box. How would you improve this section?
Ringbang (
talk) 19:49, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
I want to thank you for your interest and activity in the above article. I agree in principle that a lengthy article has more opportunity to enter a fact further in the body of the article. I argue that my Carl Schmitt must return to the lead because the concept of 'totalstaat' was early and it was institutionalized by the Germans on a relatively equal footing with the Italians. Schmitt was a jurist who had some misgivings about the concept and he was intellectually probing as he published on related topics such as various kinds of dictatorship, legal theory, and philosophy. He should be listed in "Further Reading" and given a prominent place in the article. In the genesis and development of concept of totalitarianism, Mss. Giovanni Amendola and Giovanni Gentile should admit a German theorist as an equal. Schmitt only abandoned the Weimar constitution in 1933 for National Socialism, however it occupied him intellectually for the previous decade since he published "Dictatorship" in 1921 with earlier essays on the same in 1917. In 1914 he published "The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual". The Alps in the early 20th century would not prevent the flow of ideas in both directions, Andrew. The fact that he was a jurist lends gravity to his thought.
It might be possible to establish intellectual 'influence'. I cannot read German, sir. It could be discovered if Italian translations of Schmitt were published. Or if the Germans translated the Italians.
The last reasoning I will offer is that the German and Italian versions of the total state were put into action at the same time and its reasonable to assume that they developed intellectually in concert as well.
Church of the Rain ( talk) 21:12, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Andrew, here is a link to the library materials I located on Italian publications of Schmitt or on his work. Notable is the 1935 Tuscany imprint. The language search label in Worldcat is "ln:Italian" Here is a link to the dozen items: https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/greycloud/lists/3223424 Church of the Rain ( talk) 13:41, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I don't mean to be stubborn, Andrew, but he pops up in my current reading of late. "Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions" a 2010 UK book of essays contains (8) pages on his thought. You are correct,as an editor, about the structure of the article and I am open to your adjustments as long as he is noted as one of the earliest users of the word and a scholarly influence to contemporary work. I must check Arendt's work for a reference on him. Happy New Years! Charlie Church of the Rain ( talk) 12:33, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Andrew
I would like to discuss with you Social Psychology and your belief that it can help society also I would like to add what is your interest in the power article and why you keep reverting my edits
Many thanks Richardlord50 ( talk) 13:03, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Andrew
Thanks for replying you are a user just like myself can you give me clarification in your OWN WORDS not behind a mask called 'Wikipedia guidelines'.For one thing and also that wasn't the answer to my question which was "I would like to discuss with you Social Psychology and your belief that it can help society also I would like to add what is your interest in the power article and why you keep reverting my edits".Kind Regards Richardlord50 ( talk) 13:23, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Andrew
I have yet to receive a response to my above request.May I ask why? Richardlord50 ( talk) 11:25, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
3964057 - a girlfriend phone number :-)?
After some careful consideration I see the point in your reverting of my "drive-by" editing.
At the same time I noticed you consistently reverted big chunks of work by various red-linked single-purpose accounts. I understand they are students that got an assignment and don't really care about wikipedia. (Otherwise they would have at least engaged in discussions.) Still I am wondering whether there is something salvageable in their additions. Staszek Lem ( talk) 18:23, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
You think the relationship between the Just-world hypothesis and World view is too vague to put a mere hyperlink of the latter in the "See also" section of the former? Do tell. As for Chaos theory, it is the very nature of seeming randomness and unpredictability that instills people with a sense of no control that often causes them to ponder the just/unjust nature of the world. I can't make you agree, but I find it hard to imagine you shouldn't. 71.236.253.188 ( talk) 23:09, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andrew. I m working on the
Elaboration Likelihood Model page for a university assignment. I saw on the history page that you were the most recent editor on that page and that you have edited the page a few times. I was wondering if there is a specific section of the page you feel could be improved or added that are not listed on the page. And also if I could run my work past you because I seen you have removed others work for poor citation etc.
Thanks --
LewisHoward (
talk) 19:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I have added an application of the theory that I have read about and I cited from the journal I read it from. Can you tell me why it was removed? Maks kv 91 ( talk) 10:07, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
Thanks for your help LewisHoward ( talk) 15:55, 25 March 2014 (UTC) |
Hi, I notice you restored some spam I reverted from the article. I thought it was pretty obvious vandalism. The TRAC thing is just bizarre, it was obviously scraped from the Wikipedia article without any independent fact-checking on the part of the organization, and the organization has now taken it down, after being challenged in a press conference by the Bodu founder. And yet the drive-by vandals keep adding it. The organization seems to me unnotable, perhaps it should be removed completely (again). — Neotarf ( talk) 03:51, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Your gesture of collegiality is appreciated. I'm not really editing these days, but did find the time to revert what appeared to me obvious spam of the sort that the article collects regularly. I would point out that editing on behalf of someone else is usually discouraged, and that your edit appears to reinstate material that may be in violation of such core policies as neutrality, verifiability, and biographies of living persons. It is for this reason I have taken the matter to your talk page. If you do not wish to defend the addition of this material, I will feel free to remove it again sometime in the future, although the reality is that in posting here on your talk page, I have already used up what little attention I have allotted for wiki matters these days and the article will probably remain filled with hate speech, as usual.
If you want to delve into infobox matters further, you might be interested in my old Signpost piece on the subject, in particular the section on "monsterboxes". Note the German Wikipedia's intriguing approach, as typified by the Merkel article. Note also the increasing use of microdata, which is increasingly scraped from these boxes in ways that are non-transparent.
I would also point out that the article has deep neutrality issues and appears to be at least 80% cut-and-paste from cherry-picked sources that are overtly hostile to the organization, which is a serious copyvio issue. Unfortunately the organization communicates mostly by YouTube, and almost completely in the Sinhalese language, which is yet not supported by Google Translate. This creates a huge problem with balance, since almost all the information about the organization available in English comes from the organization's enemies. Contrast the current content of the article with this rare interview, with direct quotations from one of the organization's founders. — Neotarf ( talk) 03:03, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear U*7, could you please explain what you mean when you refer to academic spam. (I have my own definition of academic spam but I do not know whether it is similar to your definition.) Thanks and regards, IjonTichy ( talk) 02:16, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey Andrew, I received a message from you on my talk page that I think you meant for user:John L. Graham to receive. He's still new to Wikipedia so he might not think to look on my talk page. SQGibbon ( talk) 21:22, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Moral "Luck'???? what makes this action one of luck? it is very misleading title , as luck is not part of the action here. Did you write this one? Is that why you are protecting it? Perhaps subject to many of the fallacies listed on this page - illogic in the face of information. The title is supposed to summarize the issue; in this one, the claim one makes of being better than someone else after an event went in their favor, therefore one is of higher moral standing, or conversely that someone is worse than someone after the fact of an event's passed; it has to do with false pretenses, assuming a title, a status, is an act of aggression, it is not a function of luck or happenstance. Think of a better word, I don't care, but that one is not very accurate. Sprezzissimo ( talk) 13:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi there Andrew,
I see you've reverted my edit on the sales management page as 'possible promotion'. I do come from the company in question, but I also am aware that Wikipedia uses nofollow links and really did want to try and start improving the articles in the sales recruiting/sales management space. The current article strength is quite weak, and it reflects badly on our work when we don't have something to point people to that can inform them.
We are leaders in the space with years of articles and books written in the field, and more importantly, we're really interested in making these articles better. We've previously submitted a new article proposal for Sales Recruiting (before my time with the company) that was rejected for reading too much like an essay, and we're really interested on working to improve it, but we don't know how to work with other editors without being rebuffed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NortonFord ( talk • contribs) 13:50, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Do not remove content of page without having any reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randeepa ( talk • contribs) 14:21, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
U3964057, I see you keep deleting my section on mirror neurons in the social cognition. You cited it as not being relevant to social cognition. I would have to disagree, as mirror neurons are arguably one of the most critical findings to a biological basis of social cognition. The page already has a social neuroscience heading and a mirror neuron subheading is a fantastic way to introduce readers to evidence of of a neurological basis to social phenomena. I think the subsection should stay and the social cognition should be edited to be more conclusive in the future. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crparker3 ( talk • contribs) 23:47, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Greetings Andrew, I see that you again reverted the recent post on mirror neurons in the social cognition article, while at the same time accusing me of "edit warring" (albeit my first edit action on that specific article). To this point, it seems that according to the "three-revert rule" and the definition of "edit warring" you are the party in violation. While this is the case, as an interested party of the social cognition subject, I am asking you to provide a specific rationale for reverting? You have cited "relevance unclear and possible undue weight" along with questioning its application to social cognition. In the prospect of improving the social cognition article, will you please elaborate upon this non-specific reasoning? Thank you in advance, Colmande — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colmande ( talk • contribs) 03:25, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, since I saw you are active in the heuristics and biases field, I wanted to point your attention to this and this; I'm sure you are more familiar than me with the guidelines and you can handle these cases better. Have a nice weekend, Ihaveacatonmydesk ( talk) 12:54, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Why would you tell me not to "push through with my version" while instating the version that another editor was "pushing through" against the will of three other editors? I had not been reverted, but was undoing another editor who was exactly pushing through by reinstating his edit that was reverted by someone else. The default for challenged material is to exclude it untill consensus is established about whether to include it and in which form. By making that edit you are removing any motivation the single editor who favors the content has to discuss and reach a compromise. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 05:08, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, As discussed earlier at talk socialisation I have started working on Legal socialisation article at User:Mahitgar/sandbox/Legal socialization. Mostlly I will be working in legal perspective. While searching the topic oline I realised the topic may be closely related to social psychology. Taking this aspect in to account I suppose your support and contributions to the article will be valuable and requesting the same. Thanks and warm regards. Mahitgar ( talk) 05:44, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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Not sure if this should go on the Buddhism and violence talk page or here, but I have changed the text on that page to accurately reflect the source. You can read the actual source on google books. Go to page 3 and you should see my edits are in good faith: Buddhist Warfare by Michael Jerryson... WillMall ~(P&~P) ( talk) 09:46, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, you've reverted my edits in the article Just-world hypothesis for typos and "clarity issues". Typos I can understand, and they can be easily fixed. However, all the information I added was clearly stated in the sources. Could the information be re-added to the article because I think it's important to have some information about the flipside (belief in unjust world) and alternatives to the hypothesis. If you want to re-format or specify some of the points that's ok too. Rusenski ( talk) 18:05, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Foresight_%28psychology%29&oldid=653542747&diff=prev Doubtful... How, would you then explain the fact that Vision (business) redirects to foresight? Care to help improve the overall situation instead of just reverting single edits? -- Kku 10:04, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
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Dear Andrew, Yes you are right. This was not a cool thing from my side to self promote by making links to my website. I understand now that Wikipedia has to prevent it. If everyone was doing that, Wikipedia would quickly turn into a mess, and not a knowledge pearl that it currently is. It was wrong and I promise to you not to do it again. Moreover, to show that determination, I have removed all the other links from Wikipedia that generate traffic to my website that I could detect. This includes |here, |here, and |here. As far as I can tell, there should be no more traffic to my website generated from Wikipedia. My hope is that you will take it with good faith and that you will be more lenient to the contents related to practopoiesis that are sensible and that other people are genuinely interested in and would like to know about. (I noticed that a person who advocated keeping information on practopoiesis on one of the pages at which you removed it, was a Nobel laureate. So, maybe there is some sense and value in keeping these contents.) And also, I hope that you will not destroy the ideasthesia page. Thank you very much. Danko Nikolic ( Danko ( talk) 16:03, 26 April 2015 (UTC))
Why you undid my edit to Empowerment 'see also' section? I added John Friedmann, writer of an important book on the subject, called Empowerment - The Politics of Alternative Development. Can you explain to me why who 'runs' wikipedia? Who is policing it? A few years ago I was a happy contributer, but since the last few years I experience more often that contributions are deleted or changes reverted. It feels like there is a secret police at work! The more so now I see that you're also involved in a discussion with Danko, with whom I corresponded before about emergence and related subjects. User:Mirrormundo
Hi U3964057, I was wondering if this article should be added to the Empathy article. Thank you for your time. Lotje ( talk) 10:52, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello, U3964057 I am Sajed Mahmud. I noticed that you made a change to this article Buddhism and violence.But I think that previous version was right.If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on talk page. Thank you. Sajed Mahmud ( talk page)16:28,3 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Andrew, I'm Yla, I'm also a social psychologist. Thanks for taking the time to explain why you reverted my edits to Social identity theory. One of the largest problems Wikipedia faces is attracting new editors. Having your first changes to Wikipedia reverted, as you did to mine, can be very discouraging. It's important that you go beyond simply explaining your reasoning though. Before commenting on my page it would have been good to check something about me. I list that I am new user on my userpage, if you look at my history you'll see that this was my first edit to Wikipedia. I understand if you don't have the time for that. But it's still critical to be friendly, to introduce yourself, and to be supportive to everyone in order to make Wikipedia a community that is welcoming.
Why don't we work together to improve Social Identity Theory beyond a C quality score? There are a number of changes that need to be made. Here are the first few changes that I plan on working on:
-The intro two paragraphs need to be substantially rewritten so that they are accessible to a general audience. Look at the first two sentences. If you knew nothing about psychology it would be very difficult to understand. What is a self-concept? what is relevant? what is intergroup? It is not enough to link to other Wikipedia pages, you need to explain these in general terms (see Object permanence for a good example of an intro to a psychology article quality rating Good). This is how I was trying to change the article. The basic idea of social identity theory is that "Social identity theory first proposed that people come to understand and define themselves, in part, as members of social groups." If you dislike that I said they were the first to propose it when you think it's possible others discussed this concept before they did okay. Let's change the language to not say they are the first, but still to describe the theory in more accessible general way. Here is a reference describing social identity theory in a similar way to the way I did (it won't let me link to site but google search for Reicher, Spears, Haslam (2010) The social identity approach in social psychology. Sage Identities Handbook).
- Next, the article needs to begin by discussing the original work that brought about social identity theory-- the minimum group paradigm. This will help people understand where the theory came from and what it means by giving a concrete example. After they understand it then we can get into the specifics of the theory, what now appears first (aspects of the theory). See Stereotype threat which is a good example of this and good quality rating. It first explains stereotype threat by explaining the original experiments. Once the reader understands the concepts, he or she is ready to understand the specifics and all the work that's come later.
I could use your help because I'm not familiar with some of the specifics of Wikipedia writing (e.g. like what needs citations and what doesn't).
Yla Tausczik ( talk) 14:52, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Kerfuffler. U3964057, thanks for creating Common ingroup identity!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. All of the sources share an author. Surely someone else has done research on this if it's notable?
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I'd probably just want to close this for now to give you more time to improve it and address issues on your own timeframe. Just checking with you first to let you know re progression at the subpage. Cheers, — Cirt ( talk) 22:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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H Andrew,
My name is YVasquez and I am part of the APS wikipedia initiative. I revised the Asch Conformity Experiments article as part of a course requirement for my Ph.D. program. I was wondering if you could explain a bit more what you meant by the following "The Asch conformity experiments demonstrated that uncertainty can arise as an outcome of social reality testing. In relation, this inconsistency has been used to support the position that the theoretical distinction between social reality testing and physical reality testing, as well as the distinction between informational influence and normative influence, are untenable." I googled these sentences and they appeared verbatim over the web. Can you tell me what this means (in your own words)? Thank you so much for helping with my recent edits! I greatly appreciate your input! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yvasquez ( talk • contribs) 07:22, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your work undoing vandalism and suspicious edits on various psychology articles. There are very few people doing this, and it's much appreciated. MartinPoulter ( talk) 22:45, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Please note that this review has been now opened for a week and if may be closed soon due to no action. As I have not notified you before, I'll give you a second extra week to become involved. Cheers, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:44, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
May I invite you to join the ranks of Wikipedia:SOCIO#Participants? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:21, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
I notice you have blanked a long-standing, sourced, consensus version of this article three times now, [2], [3], and [4], replacing it with the Muslim Tamil-in-exile version, without any explanation and without engaging on the talk page. Please note that user:SinhaYugaya, who has been blocked several times for edit warring on Sri Lanka topics, also removed the consensus version without explanation [5] [6] [7] [8]. The first blanking of this article was done here by another user who edits exclusively in sri Lanka and Tamil topics, user:Obi2canibe who removed it completely without explanation and replaced it with a Muslim version. The neutrality of this version was challenged on the talk page here here and here.
Please get consensus for your edits on the talk page before removing sourced and unchallenged material and restoring this problematic and challenged version yet again. 203.81.67.127 ( talk) 05:59, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
"Wikipedia's voice". Not an "alternate view", this is policy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.175.184.102 ( talk) 08:45, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry I haven't replied earlier to your points on the BBS talk page, been busy with other things. I am happy for you to change/remove "extremist" from the lead, particularly as the anon editors seem to be using it as an excuse to remove the rest of the article.-- obi2canibe talk contr 14:39, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Sockpuppet investigations Mbrahmana. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 18:52, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Andrew: Thanks for communicating with me openly and directly about the issue. Forgive my initial 'ignorance' regarding the applicable guidelines for the 'further reading' section. My assumption regarding content additions was misguided by judging similar additions to the EE page. Allow me to respond to one of the red flags you have raised: The pages I added do not exist primarily to sell products or services; the content on the pages is content that was published in HR industry publications (i.e., HR Reporter and T+D Magazine). Given the publication media, I thought these additions would be of value.
Regarding the other red flags, I'd say they were raised by my being misinformed on the specific policies. For example, I wasn't aware that articles in 'further readings' were required to comprehensively cover subject matter; since the added publications were directly related to topics of discussion on employee engagement, I assumed them relevant and useful.
I'm happy to follow the implied suggestion in your third point and craft relevant, original content based on the subject matter in the pages I attempted to add to the further readings section. Would that resolve the issue?
Thanks again for being open and understanding. I look forward to discussing this further. User:Rshydn Rshydn ( talk) 04:52, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
You deleted an external link for being "too niche". The link is by all measures comparable to the already-existing link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; the two should stand or fall together. Indeed, the deleted link is less niche than many of the preserved links (it addresses both philosophical and scientific aspects of altruism).
Could you please either explain your action, or undo it (or adopt a consistent editorial hand)?
Thank you for your consideration. Aubrey Bardo ( talk) 20:49, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I wrote a message regarding your reversion over at Talk:List of cognitive biases#Identified victim bias and would appreciate a response. Thanks. Vectro ( talk) 13:27, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi U3964057, and thank you for your contributions to Altruism. Recently, you reverted the addition of a section. Editors in good faith generally appreciate communication when you find their contributions problematic, particularly when you intend to or do undo them.
Reverting a good faith contribution is acceptable, but editors reverting are expected to explain their decision. If the explanation is complex, using the article's talk page may be warranted. If a change brings improvements and regressions, the 2 should be weighted. If the regressions are smaller, it is best to fix them, or to report them. If a change doesn't bring a regression but could have been better, the change should be kept, but you can of course improve upon it, or report the improvement possible.
As for the above case, you commented the change with "The concern isn't lack of detail. It is lack of integration (as well as undue weight). Please attend to the psychology section.". This comment was related to your comment in the reversion performed during the section's redaction, "Content not integrated with extant article.". These comments suggest you considered that the content added would have been more appropriate elsewhere, apparently in the Psychology section. You are free to move content in an article. In this case though, note that the content's location was carefully considered. Unfortunately, the content is as much related to evolution as to psychology, so I'm afraid Psychology wouldn't be the right location. However, I did end up creating a new section after giving up on finding an appropriate existing location. I also feel something is wrong in the article's structure, but I can't picture how it should be. I encourage you to open a discussion on the article's talk page if you can't find a location which pleases you. -- Chealer ( talk) 05:02, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear Andrew,
Thanks for reviewing my edits in the following articles:
The main purpose of editing these articles is to share the additional knowledge i gained while writing my thesis on topic of Change management in an organization under Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl, Chair of General Management and Information Systems at the University of Mannheim. All the text entered by me is from reliable and genuine sources which are clearly cited in the text. This topic is researched a lot these days and I felt that the data existing on Wikipedia is missing some important points which can be of use to our readers. I assure you that data entered is for enriching and improving the encyclopedia coverage on these topics. All the articles selected are related to my research topic. Please note that this is not related to any spamming activity. I am open for discussion on the constructive contributions and come up with a common understanding of the additional text. Looking forward to create and add something valuable for our Wikipedia Users.
Best Regards,
Shilpy Bajaj(Student of Mannheim Business school)
Shilpy Bajaj ( talk) 16:17, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Re: Potential SPAM issues
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your comment and feedback on my edits. Firstly, regarding the contribution history, I have recently created my user account here since I always had a wish to post on Wikipedia. Now, while pursuing my MBA and working on my Master Thesis I came across several experts on the topic of my research and Master Thesis. I found the subject articles to be most-relevant where I could contribute constructively from my research work. Hence, the edits have started now and I would continue posting on topics of my interest (wherever I find that I could discuss and contribute).
Secondly, regarding the content, I came across several publications from several well-known authors to certain industry experts from the Management Consulting industry who have posted several articles on this topic. Hence, I have used these sources to cite the content that I posted. Please let me know and I am happy to collaborate to make something constructive out of it. Thanks! Best Regards, Pawan ( talk)17:07, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Dear U3964057 or Andrew,
It is very good that you wrote on your user page about your background; ‘ social psychology’.
You reverted 8 or 9 edits that I did on some subjects. And your reason was ‘relevance too vague’.
[Obviously] I am not aware how deep your ‘social psychology’ background is. And this is not a big issue. Because you’ve already written [on your user page] that and it is clear you are honest, you do know something [or a lot of things; maybe in the academic manner, too] about ‘ consciousness’, ‘ cognitive bias’ and etc.
I am not trying [and am not going to] to defend myself. I just want to know:
There are hundreds of experiments but I will write here a common one, which I think you also know well, ‘ Solomon Asch conformity experiments’.
Many support this experiment and many perceive it very controversial.
It is clear that ‘ Elephant in the room’ is an idiom. There is not [or I haven’t learnt yet] a scientific experiment to raise this ‘idiom’ to an ‘experiment’ status [as Mr. Asch did].
My point is not to create a portable laboratory [on this ‘wikipedia message board’] to decide immediately what we will do about the aforementioned idiom.
Closer to the fact, I am not trying to ‘promote’ its status to scientific league and leave.
Especially for these wiki pages: ‘ Bandwagon effect’, ‘ Bystander effect’, ‘ Groupthink’, ‘ Group behaviour’, ‘ Collective behavior’, ‘ List of cognitive biases’ and ‘ Conformity’; have you thought that these 7 wiki titles are strictly definitive areas and the ‘Elephant in the room’ idiom is a kind of randomly-changing attitude so this idiom is not relevant to those wiki pages? Many titles can be eliminated [and many adequate categories, which I don’t know, can be added] but I think for some, the idiom seems relevant.
Repeating one more time, I do not intend at all to be offensive. I just want to learn.
P.S. Not directly related to our subject above, I genuinely understand your approach on ‘scientific manner in -free- wikipedia world’ and ‘trying to be a little more open-minded about the experts who try to put so much effort to make solid encyclopedic articles on many specific wiki pages’.
A few weeks ago, I had some conversations with some wikipedians on Larry Sanger. Unfortunately, the majority of them, almost, jumped on me why I mentioned his name. They have been thinking that Mr. Sanger made many ‘bad!’ contributions after the wikipedia had been founded, almost ‘betrayed!’ its core values, so even his name must not be in any part of the wikipedia.
The spark was this link I gave as a reference [about ‘scientific manner’ and ‘the experts’ issue; not ‘elitism / anti-elitism’ conflict] http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25 written by Larry Sanger in 2004. -- Toksoz ( talk) 12:47, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
My copy edit helped the readability of the article by removing useless words, condensing sentence structure, and replacing passive voice with active voice; my decisions accord to the Wikipedia Copy Editing Guide and therefore should remain. For example, I rewrote a sentence that began with "It is..." because the pronoun "It" in that sentence lacked an antecedent. If you would like more information about copy editing, then read the Copy Editing Guide, and if you would like more about my edit, then please send me a message. I will revert your reversion simply so that I will not forget to later so do.
-Duxwing — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duxwing ( talk • contribs) 20:40, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
I lack faith in my "abilities": I make each edit because I think that it will improve the page, and I will therefore integrate your helpful notes into my second attempt. If you would like to send more of them to improve my lay understanding of psychology, then please do!
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Dear Andrew,
I saw that you just undid twice my edit on the 14th Dalai Lama. I have no desire of edit warring with you. However, please give a good reason for undoing my edits. As far as I can tell, the references used strongly support the added content and came from credible sources. I assure you that there is an abundance of hard evidence for the added content, enough that it would be very difficult to deny on plausible grounds.
Please let me explain briefly why I had added the following:
"However, many have condemned the Dalai Lama for hypocritically promoting "peace" worldwide as a means to regain power over Tibet. Until emancipation in 1959, the Dalai Lama ruled Tibet as a theocratic dictatorship, with over ninety percent of the population living as serfs in a feudalistic system of involuntary servitude.[4] In addition, the Dalai Lama received funding from the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s to engage in separatist activity against China.[5]"
Many including myself believe that the wiki page gave a very one-sided view of the Dalai Lama. While the Dalai Lama is admired by many, there are also plenty of others who despise him for precisely these reasons. Like everything in the article lead, the fact that the Tibet had been a feudal serf society prior to Chinese intervention and that the Dalai Lama received CIA funding to organize uprisings against China is much representative of the Dalai Lama's life, and hence, it should be included. I would also like to make the point that no religious leader, including the Dalai Lama, should be beyond objective criticism.
It would be greatly appreciated if you justify to me why the above content merits deletion from the Dalai Lama's wiki page.
Best,
Tomathan — Preceding
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Hi Andrew,
You recently added a notice of edit warring to my talk page, during what you perceive as an "edit war" between you and me :
As previously discussed, I don't think this notice is warranted (although, as I explained, "edit warring" is never black or white). Having said that, whether edit warring is happening or not, posting such a notice yourself is probably not appropriate (see Wikipedia:Edit_warring#What_to_do_if_you_see_edit-warring_behavior). -- Chealer ( talk) 17:48, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
You started the reverts first. So far you did two reverts. I did one. You should have followed this first. I already put the issue on the TP page. 124.149.121.142 ( talk) 00:15, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
It looks like you got plenty of complain for reverting others. B in BRD does not mean you can make false claim about the edit of others R does not mean you can revert without research into the sources D does not mean you can revert edits but not participate the discussion on the TP 124.149.121.142 ( talk) 00:39, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Jennifer and I'm a third-year PhD student studying psychological science and quantitative methods. I'm writing to inquire why you undid my revisions to the "minimal group paradigm" page. I feel that my additions bring valuable information to the Wikipedia community, and I have provided the citations from a renowned social psychology textbook. I am currently editing Wikipedia pages as a part of a social psychology course, and I am curious to know why you have undone practically all of my changes, rather than suggesting meaningful edits so that we may collaborate to improve pages.
Jenyih ( talk) 05:40, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear friend. Feminist French psychoanalysis is a field that vastly changed the current horizons in psychoanalysis. It is recognized for almost half a century. I think that it is very valuable that the Wikipedia readers will be aware of this tendency. Many psychoanalysts today will agree, thanks to the efforts of French feminist psychoanalysts, that the psychoanalysis issued from Freud onwards was paternalistic and that its insistance on the phallic paradigm was disastrous to women. I think that this must be reflected in the page. I know that for the moment the section is not sufficient, but it is important to start. Others can continue slowly and build the whole mini chapter. More names should be added, mainly from the American field of psychoanalysis, but my hope is that others will join the effort. I will appreciate if you will contribute in helping to build this chapter. It is time to take this direction out of the limited "feminist" section. . Best wishes Artethical ( talk) 11:05, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Andrew, I recently revised the lead section of Group cohesiveness. Thanks for your conscientious attention to this article. My initial concern about this section is that the lead sentence deviates unnecessarily from the first guideline of WP:LEADSENTENCE. I think this is a good guideline because it advocates a clear and direct synopsis. I hope you can help.
In this particular case, making the headword the subject of the lead sentence can immediately establish the relationship between cohesiveness and cohesion. The article seems to lose track of which of these subtly different concepts is the topic. I, a layperson, assume that cohesiveness is a meta-property summing all the necessary and sufficient prerequisites (behaviours, qualities, dynamics) by which individuals achieve a state called group cohesion, but the lead section avoids explicating this fundamental relationship.
Although the second sentence equivocates, I learn from it that these necessary and sufficient conditions probably are social relations, task relations, perceived unity, and emotions, but the meanings and relationships of these terms are missing. I assume that (social relations) + (task relations) + (perceived unity) + (emotions)
is not the formula for group cohesion, because "relations" can either be prososocial or antisocial, and I doubt just any old emotions will do. So the lead section hides the relationship between cohesiveness and cohesion in a
black box. How would you improve this section?
Ringbang (
talk) 19:49, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
I want to thank you for your interest and activity in the above article. I agree in principle that a lengthy article has more opportunity to enter a fact further in the body of the article. I argue that my Carl Schmitt must return to the lead because the concept of 'totalstaat' was early and it was institutionalized by the Germans on a relatively equal footing with the Italians. Schmitt was a jurist who had some misgivings about the concept and he was intellectually probing as he published on related topics such as various kinds of dictatorship, legal theory, and philosophy. He should be listed in "Further Reading" and given a prominent place in the article. In the genesis and development of concept of totalitarianism, Mss. Giovanni Amendola and Giovanni Gentile should admit a German theorist as an equal. Schmitt only abandoned the Weimar constitution in 1933 for National Socialism, however it occupied him intellectually for the previous decade since he published "Dictatorship" in 1921 with earlier essays on the same in 1917. In 1914 he published "The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual". The Alps in the early 20th century would not prevent the flow of ideas in both directions, Andrew. The fact that he was a jurist lends gravity to his thought.
It might be possible to establish intellectual 'influence'. I cannot read German, sir. It could be discovered if Italian translations of Schmitt were published. Or if the Germans translated the Italians.
The last reasoning I will offer is that the German and Italian versions of the total state were put into action at the same time and its reasonable to assume that they developed intellectually in concert as well.
Church of the Rain ( talk) 21:12, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Andrew, here is a link to the library materials I located on Italian publications of Schmitt or on his work. Notable is the 1935 Tuscany imprint. The language search label in Worldcat is "ln:Italian" Here is a link to the dozen items: https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/greycloud/lists/3223424 Church of the Rain ( talk) 13:41, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I don't mean to be stubborn, Andrew, but he pops up in my current reading of late. "Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions" a 2010 UK book of essays contains (8) pages on his thought. You are correct,as an editor, about the structure of the article and I am open to your adjustments as long as he is noted as one of the earliest users of the word and a scholarly influence to contemporary work. I must check Arendt's work for a reference on him. Happy New Years! Charlie Church of the Rain ( talk) 12:33, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Andrew
I would like to discuss with you Social Psychology and your belief that it can help society also I would like to add what is your interest in the power article and why you keep reverting my edits
Many thanks Richardlord50 ( talk) 13:03, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Andrew
Thanks for replying you are a user just like myself can you give me clarification in your OWN WORDS not behind a mask called 'Wikipedia guidelines'.For one thing and also that wasn't the answer to my question which was "I would like to discuss with you Social Psychology and your belief that it can help society also I would like to add what is your interest in the power article and why you keep reverting my edits".Kind Regards Richardlord50 ( talk) 13:23, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Andrew
I have yet to receive a response to my above request.May I ask why? Richardlord50 ( talk) 11:25, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
3964057 - a girlfriend phone number :-)?
After some careful consideration I see the point in your reverting of my "drive-by" editing.
At the same time I noticed you consistently reverted big chunks of work by various red-linked single-purpose accounts. I understand they are students that got an assignment and don't really care about wikipedia. (Otherwise they would have at least engaged in discussions.) Still I am wondering whether there is something salvageable in their additions. Staszek Lem ( talk) 18:23, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
You think the relationship between the Just-world hypothesis and World view is too vague to put a mere hyperlink of the latter in the "See also" section of the former? Do tell. As for Chaos theory, it is the very nature of seeming randomness and unpredictability that instills people with a sense of no control that often causes them to ponder the just/unjust nature of the world. I can't make you agree, but I find it hard to imagine you shouldn't. 71.236.253.188 ( talk) 23:09, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andrew. I m working on the
Elaboration Likelihood Model page for a university assignment. I saw on the history page that you were the most recent editor on that page and that you have edited the page a few times. I was wondering if there is a specific section of the page you feel could be improved or added that are not listed on the page. And also if I could run my work past you because I seen you have removed others work for poor citation etc.
Thanks --
LewisHoward (
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Hello, I have added an application of the theory that I have read about and I cited from the journal I read it from. Can you tell me why it was removed? Maks kv 91 ( talk) 10:07, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help LewisHoward ( talk) 15:55, 25 March 2014 (UTC) |
Hi, I notice you restored some spam I reverted from the article. I thought it was pretty obvious vandalism. The TRAC thing is just bizarre, it was obviously scraped from the Wikipedia article without any independent fact-checking on the part of the organization, and the organization has now taken it down, after being challenged in a press conference by the Bodu founder. And yet the drive-by vandals keep adding it. The organization seems to me unnotable, perhaps it should be removed completely (again). — Neotarf ( talk) 03:51, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Your gesture of collegiality is appreciated. I'm not really editing these days, but did find the time to revert what appeared to me obvious spam of the sort that the article collects regularly. I would point out that editing on behalf of someone else is usually discouraged, and that your edit appears to reinstate material that may be in violation of such core policies as neutrality, verifiability, and biographies of living persons. It is for this reason I have taken the matter to your talk page. If you do not wish to defend the addition of this material, I will feel free to remove it again sometime in the future, although the reality is that in posting here on your talk page, I have already used up what little attention I have allotted for wiki matters these days and the article will probably remain filled with hate speech, as usual.
If you want to delve into infobox matters further, you might be interested in my old Signpost piece on the subject, in particular the section on "monsterboxes". Note the German Wikipedia's intriguing approach, as typified by the Merkel article. Note also the increasing use of microdata, which is increasingly scraped from these boxes in ways that are non-transparent.
I would also point out that the article has deep neutrality issues and appears to be at least 80% cut-and-paste from cherry-picked sources that are overtly hostile to the organization, which is a serious copyvio issue. Unfortunately the organization communicates mostly by YouTube, and almost completely in the Sinhalese language, which is yet not supported by Google Translate. This creates a huge problem with balance, since almost all the information about the organization available in English comes from the organization's enemies. Contrast the current content of the article with this rare interview, with direct quotations from one of the organization's founders. — Neotarf ( talk) 03:03, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear U*7, could you please explain what you mean when you refer to academic spam. (I have my own definition of academic spam but I do not know whether it is similar to your definition.) Thanks and regards, IjonTichy ( talk) 02:16, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey Andrew, I received a message from you on my talk page that I think you meant for user:John L. Graham to receive. He's still new to Wikipedia so he might not think to look on my talk page. SQGibbon ( talk) 21:22, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Moral "Luck'???? what makes this action one of luck? it is very misleading title , as luck is not part of the action here. Did you write this one? Is that why you are protecting it? Perhaps subject to many of the fallacies listed on this page - illogic in the face of information. The title is supposed to summarize the issue; in this one, the claim one makes of being better than someone else after an event went in their favor, therefore one is of higher moral standing, or conversely that someone is worse than someone after the fact of an event's passed; it has to do with false pretenses, assuming a title, a status, is an act of aggression, it is not a function of luck or happenstance. Think of a better word, I don't care, but that one is not very accurate. Sprezzissimo ( talk) 13:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi there Andrew,
I see you've reverted my edit on the sales management page as 'possible promotion'. I do come from the company in question, but I also am aware that Wikipedia uses nofollow links and really did want to try and start improving the articles in the sales recruiting/sales management space. The current article strength is quite weak, and it reflects badly on our work when we don't have something to point people to that can inform them.
We are leaders in the space with years of articles and books written in the field, and more importantly, we're really interested in making these articles better. We've previously submitted a new article proposal for Sales Recruiting (before my time with the company) that was rejected for reading too much like an essay, and we're really interested on working to improve it, but we don't know how to work with other editors without being rebuffed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NortonFord ( talk • contribs) 13:50, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Do not remove content of page without having any reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randeepa ( talk • contribs) 14:21, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
U3964057, I see you keep deleting my section on mirror neurons in the social cognition. You cited it as not being relevant to social cognition. I would have to disagree, as mirror neurons are arguably one of the most critical findings to a biological basis of social cognition. The page already has a social neuroscience heading and a mirror neuron subheading is a fantastic way to introduce readers to evidence of of a neurological basis to social phenomena. I think the subsection should stay and the social cognition should be edited to be more conclusive in the future. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crparker3 ( talk • contribs) 23:47, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Greetings Andrew, I see that you again reverted the recent post on mirror neurons in the social cognition article, while at the same time accusing me of "edit warring" (albeit my first edit action on that specific article). To this point, it seems that according to the "three-revert rule" and the definition of "edit warring" you are the party in violation. While this is the case, as an interested party of the social cognition subject, I am asking you to provide a specific rationale for reverting? You have cited "relevance unclear and possible undue weight" along with questioning its application to social cognition. In the prospect of improving the social cognition article, will you please elaborate upon this non-specific reasoning? Thank you in advance, Colmande — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colmande ( talk • contribs) 03:25, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, since I saw you are active in the heuristics and biases field, I wanted to point your attention to this and this; I'm sure you are more familiar than me with the guidelines and you can handle these cases better. Have a nice weekend, Ihaveacatonmydesk ( talk) 12:54, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Why would you tell me not to "push through with my version" while instating the version that another editor was "pushing through" against the will of three other editors? I had not been reverted, but was undoing another editor who was exactly pushing through by reinstating his edit that was reverted by someone else. The default for challenged material is to exclude it untill consensus is established about whether to include it and in which form. By making that edit you are removing any motivation the single editor who favors the content has to discuss and reach a compromise. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 05:08, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, As discussed earlier at talk socialisation I have started working on Legal socialisation article at User:Mahitgar/sandbox/Legal socialization. Mostlly I will be working in legal perspective. While searching the topic oline I realised the topic may be closely related to social psychology. Taking this aspect in to account I suppose your support and contributions to the article will be valuable and requesting the same. Thanks and warm regards. Mahitgar ( talk) 05:44, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, you've reverted my edits in the article Just-world hypothesis for typos and "clarity issues". Typos I can understand, and they can be easily fixed. However, all the information I added was clearly stated in the sources. Could the information be re-added to the article because I think it's important to have some information about the flipside (belief in unjust world) and alternatives to the hypothesis. If you want to re-format or specify some of the points that's ok too. Rusenski ( talk) 18:05, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
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Dear Andrew, Yes you are right. This was not a cool thing from my side to self promote by making links to my website. I understand now that Wikipedia has to prevent it. If everyone was doing that, Wikipedia would quickly turn into a mess, and not a knowledge pearl that it currently is. It was wrong and I promise to you not to do it again. Moreover, to show that determination, I have removed all the other links from Wikipedia that generate traffic to my website that I could detect. This includes |here, |here, and |here. As far as I can tell, there should be no more traffic to my website generated from Wikipedia. My hope is that you will take it with good faith and that you will be more lenient to the contents related to practopoiesis that are sensible and that other people are genuinely interested in and would like to know about. (I noticed that a person who advocated keeping information on practopoiesis on one of the pages at which you removed it, was a Nobel laureate. So, maybe there is some sense and value in keeping these contents.) And also, I hope that you will not destroy the ideasthesia page. Thank you very much. Danko Nikolic ( Danko ( talk) 16:03, 26 April 2015 (UTC))
Why you undid my edit to Empowerment 'see also' section? I added John Friedmann, writer of an important book on the subject, called Empowerment - The Politics of Alternative Development. Can you explain to me why who 'runs' wikipedia? Who is policing it? A few years ago I was a happy contributer, but since the last few years I experience more often that contributions are deleted or changes reverted. It feels like there is a secret police at work! The more so now I see that you're also involved in a discussion with Danko, with whom I corresponded before about emergence and related subjects. User:Mirrormundo
Hi U3964057, I was wondering if this article should be added to the Empathy article. Thank you for your time. Lotje ( talk) 10:52, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello, U3964057 I am Sajed Mahmud. I noticed that you made a change to this article Buddhism and violence.But I think that previous version was right.If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on talk page. Thank you. Sajed Mahmud ( talk page)16:28,3 July 2015 (UTC)
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