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Hi! I have reverted your (repeated) addition of the remark about the translation of χάραγμα. Not only was it formulated in a manner inconsistent with WP:NPOV, but I also could not find any support for the claim in that lexicon. The website you provided was unhelpful (well, blatantly wrong and non-notable, actually). Please read WP:NPOV, WP:V and WP:EL for more information. — xyzzy n 09:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
“ | Καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ἐξέχεεν τὴν φιάλην αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν γῆν: καὶ ἐγένετο ἕλκος κακὸν καὶ πονηρὸν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς ἔχοντας τὸ χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου+ καὶ τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας τῇ εἰκόνι αὐτοῦ. | ” |
“ | And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. | ” |
“ | A. any mark engraved, imprinted, or branded, […] ἔχειν τὸ χ. τοῦ θηρίου Apoc.16.2 , cf. 13.16; | ” |
“ | 2. stamped money, coin, AP5.29 (Antip.Thess.), POxy.144.6 (vi A. D.). | ” |
You don't get it, look at the CONTEXT: "No one buys or sells (BUYS OR SELLS) without the MONEY of the beast on/in mind or hand." Liddell and Scott are telling the context of the words or the places they appear in documents under translations throughout the ages.
Antipater Thessalonicensis wrote at the same time as the Revelation was composed (66 AD) and POxy.144.6 was written in the Fourth Century AC, which means that the greek word χάραγμα meant MONEY at the time Revelations was written.
Liddel-Scott are only documenting how the word had meaning at the times specified. As you know, words change meanings over time. χάραγμα meant MONEY at the time the "revelation" was written.
The bible "scholars" mistranslated the word χάραγμα like they do with the Aramaic word Mammon,which is only translated correctly in the New Oxford English Bible. (Or "Logos" is NOT translated as Logic in John 1:1.)
Jesus-Christ (if he existed) said, "You can't serve God & MONEY [mammon is an Aramaic word for money] ... but the Pharisees, who loved money (philarguron) heard all this and scoffed." Like you're scoffing too. (See Luke 16.)
Jesus also told his disciples, like the Buddha did, to not carry and gold, silver, script or brass in their purse.
Jesus also said, "Who's picture is on the $$$?" Caesar's!
Also, xyzzy_n, I am NOT skilled at formatting html.
You allow the Jehovah's Witnesses and several others to voice their opinion you should NOT censor mine just because I am self-published.
Please don't censor my opinion: look at the context. χάραγμα was known as money when Revelation was written. (2. stamped money, coin, AP5.29 (Antip.Thess.) <-- Antip.Thess. lived at the time the Revelation was written.
Peace, Love & Truth, Raquel
No, xyzzy_n, you DO need to look at the context and the definition of chargma. I may not have a following like the Jehovah's Witnesses do but I'm right and you ARE a Pharissitical censor of the truth!
I'll bet you hide your theory in the page somewhere. Like, why do these people get their theory in and not me? Who the hell are they?!
What good are their references? My reference comes from the Unabridged Greek-English Lexicon by Lidell and Scott!
Peace & Love, Raquel
My reference to the context and definition of Charagma = MONEY comes from the Unabridged greek-English Lexicon by Liddell & Scott. You can see a JPEG image of the definition on my flickr-photos and, here's an online version of the definition of the word, χάραγμα, which means MONEY, here's another online Liddel-Scott reference to Charagma.
You don't care about Truth, like a Pharisee you crucify the Logos-Logic of God!
The Liddell & Scott Lexicon is a dictionary, which tells the context of words. Nearly all bibles translate χάραγμα as "Mark" 'cause they don't know any better (they had abridged dictionaries or they didn't have a good Lexicon), they're ignorant or afraid of the truth! Raquel Baranow ( talk) 04:51, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
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Under the subject heading "Mark of Commerce" the definition of Xαραγμα has other meanings besides "Mark." If U look at this reference from an Unabridged Greek-English Lexicon, U can see that is also means, MONEY or coin. Hence: "No one buys and sells without the MONEY of the beast." Nero's face was impressed on the coins. The " Revelation" was written around 66 A.D. at time Nero lived, the Jews revolted against the Romans and the Jews started coining their own money. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 03:19, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey: Apologies, on looking back into this, I do see some seriously problematic edits from you... but they're from 2005, hardly worth a concern now. I've reviewed all your edits from this year and it seems to me that your edits from this period are okay. So I'm going to unblock you to file your username change request. But it is worth reminding you that despite your own personal observations, Wikipedia article content must be based on reliable sources and presented in proportion to their prominence. Mango juice talk 18:25, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, Mangojuice! . . . I just submitted a new username and, yes, the REAL problems I had were waaay back in 2005. If any administrator wants to edit my page to remove any of the above related to this block it would be appreciated. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 19:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I had some concerns with the amount of information you were displaying on your userpage. It's generally not safe to publish that much personally-identifiable information online. I've removed it and asked for it to be deleted permanently. I hope you don't take offence; I'm just concerned about safety. // roux 08:03, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. This is a friendly notification that all 9/11 articles are under general sanctions. Please be especially careful before editing further there to familiarize yourself with WP:ARB9/11. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 16:42, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Raquel - please see our policies on original research and verifyable and reliable sources. Also, one of our core values is that we retain a neutral point of view in all matters.
Your opinion and contributions here are non-neutral, are original research, are not published in reliable sources.
Wikipedia is not a place to fight external fights such as attempting to raise public visibility of fringe theories. You yourself know and acknowledge that your opinions are not mainstream. Attempting to use Wikipedia to soapbox, or promote those theories is also a violation of our policies.
If you can review and abide by those policies you are welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. If you reject those policies, then Wikipedia is not an appropriate venue for your contributions.
It's up to you to chose whether to abide by our goals and core values. We are not the thing you seem to think we should be in this case - we're an encyclopedia, not those other things. If you can contribute under our policy to the encyclopedia then please do. If not, please don't force us to block you from editing permanently. Just walk away from participation here with no hard feelings.
Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 20:43, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
U keep saying "reliable source" but that is a very subjective term: Government is NOT always a "reliable source."
If U guys leave me alone and didn't erase stuff I write, like at the Talk Page for Controlled Demolition at the WTC, everything would be alright. I reworded the stuff someone erased and included MANY references . . . U or someone else can sort them out as "reliable" or not . . . I was merely suggesting that the Government's explaination of the tiny debris pile and several inches of toxic dust throughout Manhattan is rediculous! A more likely explaination is a Thermobaric bomb. If U Google, "Thermobaric" + "wtc" U will see many "reliable sources."
But of course . . . it would be sooooo much easier 4 U editors to ban and censor me! Raquel Baranow ( talk) 21:04, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
(outdenting again for ease of typing)
Raquel - talking about the underlying facts... Take a look at Gravitational potential energy#Gravitational potential energy. A kilogram of material 415 meters above the ground has 4,070 joules of energy. A ton of material has aout 4.1 megajoules of energy - about the energy in a kilogram of TNT (4.2 Mj), which is enough to break a ton of concrete and steel into a bunch of small chunks of metal and a lot of concrete dust and small chunks.
The collapses didn't smash the buildings into tiny short stacks of material. You're forgetting the WTC basements. There was 60 feet of space under the plaza level, between bedrock and the plaza. The debris piles were about 70 feet tall on the average - sticking up a bit above ground level, but mostly compacted in the former basement spaces. That roughly 20:1 compaction lines up well with the former empty space fraction of the buildings - once collapsed, most of the air space between floors went away, but that's about it. Looking at the video, piles of wreckage, etc - they clearly weren't blown up by bombs. All the videos clearly show vertical or near vertical collapse of all the debris, other than small puffs of air and debris out the sides as floors were collapsed together. If there had been enough bombs to do serious damage, you'd have seen much more fragmentation and windows shattering out all sides. Thermobarics don't neatly sever structural columns - they overpressure a whole volume, blowing out windows, floors, ceilings. Windows would have been shattered outwards at very high velocity, you'd have seen visible shockwaves coming out the windows, etc. The points at which the collapse started clearly were within the floors which were on fire from the aircraft strikes. You can't use a thermobaric or FAE explosive in a room or space that's on fire - the fire will simply ignite or burn the explosive during the dispersal process, taking away the dispersed detonation behavior. You get a big puff of fire, not a detonation.
Even if the building had been completely wired up for a controlled demolition, assuming someone had planned that from the beginning, any explosive material available (and any reasonable wires for detonators for it) would have ignited and burned away from the surrounding fire. One could hypothesize that someone wired the building for demolitions and then exploded other parts of it - but the collapse behavior clearly was the blocks of the buildings above the fire zone falling down into the structure below them, indicating that whatever happened started right where the fires were hottest. There was far more energy and momentum in the falling structure than was needed to shatter and collapse the rest of the structure, at that point.
Simple collapse explains the debris pile and dust just fine. See for example [2] - the total gravitational energy in the 600,000 tons of structure and fittings per building was about equal to about 280 tons of TNT (per tower). That's plenty enough to squash the debris and break it into little pieces, and compact what's left into the former basement spaces.
This is intrinsic to highrise buildings. You get the same short debris pile with actual controlled demolitions, if you look at them. They use careful precutting and a few tens of kilograms of explosive to bring down a building that weighs tens of thousands of tons - and it collapses into a small pile of debris.
Fire and local structural collapse explains WTC just fine. Any theory with explosives doesn't explain where the collapse started, because any explosives at the collapse points would have burned off in the fire. Thermobarics would be even more vulnerable to the heat and then burning / flame environment, and are even less credible than normal explosives. But the heat of the fire was 2-3 times hotter than the hottest temperature the most heat resistant explosives in the world can stand before they break down and burn away (most explosives burn just fine, without detonating, if you light them on fire or heat them enough in an oven).
I appreciate that you mean well with all this. But explosives really don't make any sense at all here. They aren't a better explanation. They're a worse explanation. Really much worse. Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 21:12, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
WTC Twin Towers: EXPLOSIVE Evidence
· Nearly free-fall acceleration through path of greatest resistance · Improbable symmetry of debris distribution · Extremely rapid onset of destruction · Over one hundred first responders reported explosions & flashes · Multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally 600 ft at 50 mph · Mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking · Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic-like clouds · 1200 foot diameter debris field: no “pancaked” floors found · Isolated explosive ejections 20-40 stories below demolition front · Total building destruction: dismemberment of steel frame · Several tons of molten iron found under all three high-rises · Evidence of thermite incendiaries found in steel & dust samples · FEMA steel analysis: sulfidation, oxidation & intergranular melting · No precedent for steel-framed high-rise collapse due to fire (WTC-7) SOURCE: AE911Truth.org Raquel Baranow ( talk) 10:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Your discussion on AN/I is getting into some trouble where you don't understand our verifyability and reliable sources requirements. Your comments about orwellian ignorance of the truth need to be followed up on...
We don't care about "The Truth" not because we don't want to be accurate - on the contrary, we entirely do - but because we have no way of knowing what any contributor's actual experience, credentials, and validity are.
As I mentioned when I first started talking to you - people have claimed all sorts of crazy things including UFO attacks, earthquake faults, meteor strikes for the WTC collapses. We have no way of knowing if the person who writes "It was certainly a meteor impact, see the shockwave pattern and damage to surrounding buildings, the airburst pattern, etc" is a NASA meteor impact expert or a 13 year old kid who was watching the Armageddon movie and mistakes computer graphics for reality.
We have no way of knowing if "The Truth" that anyone claims has any validity to it.
What we do know, and can check on and confirm, is that Person X wrote thing Y in publication / book / newspaper / etc. Z. We can look at publication / book / newspaper Z and determine if they generally do fact-checking, scientific or engineering peer review, if it's a serious publication or a popular press, etc. We can also confirm things like "Publications A, B, C, D, E all carried articles saying that Y happened".
Websites are bad sources. They're bad sources because any person can put one up - there's no way to verify that they do fact checking, that they did any peer review, etc. There's no way to tell for sure who put it up, and what their real credentials and experience are. I could tell you here that I have been on a team that's imploded 20 buildings in controlled demolitions, and you have no reasonable way to confirm or refute that claim... (just to be clear - I have not actually done that... I have some experience with explosives, including both theory and practice, and an engineering degree, and I've looked at the analysies done for building collapses, terrorist bomb damage, structural engineering issues, etc. But I don't take buildings down for a living). I could say I was a university professor (I am not), etc.
We focus on reliable sources and verifyable sources because we don't have any idea who is putting information here, really, and we have no way to tell if someone claiming to know something really does. We can't tell if you're a qualified expert, or if I am. So we assume nobody is, and we insist that you do your homework and cite your references and sources for anything which seems questionable.
I don't believe any source is never going to be mistaken, or that any source could never be corrupted. But we judge the credibility of sources by how official they are - academic peer reviewed things are great, official reports by organizations are great, publications that include more references and which show their work and analysis and which are supported by other research are great.
Talking about fringe theories, there usually isn't much good coverage. But even with fringe theories, you find some people who have some credibility talking about things. There are some college professors and engineers associated with the 9/11 conspiracy groups. We can accurately report that those people have made statements or done analysies.
The problem with your thermobarics claims is that as far as I know, none of the experts in the 9/11 conspiracy crowd who know explosives have supported them. So it's not even reliably sourced or verifyable by standards *within the fringe group*...
That's the sort of support that ideas need to be included in Wikipedia. Even if the experts in the conspiracy stuff are way outside the mainstream, you need them to support the idea enough to justify including it here. So far as far as I can tell, none of them do. And from what I know on FAE / Thermobarics, there's not much chance that anyone would support it, given that it would be pretty much impossible to do that with those types of explosives, and it would have looked completely different if someone had tried.
So, please understand that it's important to find sources and references. If you can find some which are reasonably reliable in the context of the demolition conspiracy people, then please provide them. If there aren't any, you should consider why there aren't... perhaps it's because it's just an incorrect idea.
Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 00:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Raquel Baranow. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 19:05, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
For the record and my reference, so this discussion won't get lost, I'm copying it here. it is archived HERE.
Account espousing conspiracy theories; Intervention needed
This account is soapboxing and causing trouble:
The account is wasting other editors time and disrupting talk pages. I'd like to see if somebody else could intervene and explain how Wikipedia works before more time is wasted. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 19:04, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
I hafta go for about 72-hours. I also promise to be more careful in the Discussion Pages but please don't ban me or erase anything I've written! If U want me to erase or edit something, please discuss it on my Talk Page before erasing what I have written! Raquel Baranow ( talk) 21:24, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
"My purpose here at Wiki is to establish the truth". With the best will in the world, on her own talk page this editor claims to have been around since 2005; if s/he hasn't got the clue by now, and does not move forward, it has to be "kiss, kiss, bye-bye". Without the kisses. We have far too many such editors and give them far too much leeway as it is. Absent a severe change of attitude, it's time for a kick+door scenario. -- Rodhull andemu 01:19, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Georgewilliamherbert ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) has been patiently trying to explain things to the user, which is what I hoped for when starting this thread. Unfortunately, the user is playing the "I can't hear you" game and is very likely to continue making contributions that are only disruptive and violating policies. As a result, I think it would be a good idea to place an indefinite block until such time as the user agrees to follow policy. We need to protect our volunteers from wasting time dealing with somebody who is obviously a deep believer in conspiracy and fringe theories, to the point that they will our behavioral and editorial norms to accomplish their agenda. Attempts to educate the user may continue, and the user could be unblocked if those attempts prove successful. Jehochman Talk 08:48, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Blogs cannot be reliably used in a case like this so I suggest Block per Wikipedia:General sanctions. rdunn PLIB 14:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Alex: U will see below that I have stopped abbreviating stuff . . . I'm also not too good at spelling. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 20:07, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
←Actually, Raquel, if you actually read the criticisms of your edits you'll see that what is being attacked is not your theory, nor you (with some exceptions on both counts, and GWH's comments on civility in this forum are well made). What is being debated is that there are no reliable sources, in WP terms, for what you are claiming. If you can come up with reliable, verifiable sources, please do so. You may feel that by definition "the Government" or "they" are in control of what we're terming "reliable sources". If so, then so be it. You may have a slightly wrong idea about what WP is. It is not a vehicle for the Truth. It is a tertiary encyclopædic source, reporting what has already been reported elsewhere. That is what it's for. That is why it is neither a vehicle for original research nor a platform to "give explainations to the people who died" (I suspect it would take more than WP to offer explanations to the dead anyway). Please read, rather than discounting as "attacks by faceless/nameless people" what has been said, read the pages you're being pointed to, such as WP:RS, WP:V, WP:NOT and WP:FRINGE (that last is not intended as an insult, please read it to discover why. Tonywalton Talk 17:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Raquel, as has been explained to you repeatedly, Wikipedia is not the place for you to float your novel interpretations of history, whether they be on the Holocaust, the JFK assassination, or the World Trade Center attacks. You have a blog where you can do that and Usenet can still be found where it always was. I know you can't have forgotten this because you archived the whole WP:ANI discussion on your talk page [ [5]]. I can't imagine that it isn't clear to you by now. You're not going to revise the generally accepted view of history on Wikipedia. That's not what an encyclopedia is for. -- Steven J. Anderson ( talk) 02:55, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
You said on WP:AN/I you'd had a heart attack a short time ago, Regardless of anything to do with edits on Wikipedia, best wishes for a swift recovery! Tonywalton Talk 00:40, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
A picture is worth 1000 words. I have some pics comparing Hunt, Sturgis, Holt & Harrelson to the Three Tramps as well as my conclusion and info that two of the Tramps were indeed Hunt & Sturgis, HERE. The Rockefeller Commission never published any pics of Hunt, Sturgis & the Tramps. The HSCA Commission used lousy pics of Hunt & Sturgis to compare to the Tramps. Show the pics, let ppl judge for themselves. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 21:29, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
What is so tired and pathetic about these people not accepting that the three tramps were in fact simply that - three tramps - is what they are asking us to accept here. Namely that the "old" tramp, is in fact Hunt who, in 1963, would have been YOUNGER (born 1918) than the man he supposedly conspired to kill (Kennedy was born 1917). One look at that photo would tell any reasonable person that these are different people. Of course, we aren't dealing with reasonable people here... Canada Jack ( talk) 21:02, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Again, how do you expect us to believe that that old tramp who looks like he was old enough to be Kennedy's father, was in fact Mr. Hunt who was younger than Kennedy? We don't have to take anyone's "word" for it - the answer is rather obvious, Raquel: The man was not Hunt. Canada Jack ( talk) 23:55, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Let me get this straight. You claim that that photo is of Mr. Hunt. I say that Hunt was younger than Kennedy, yet the man you claim to be him appears to be old enough to be his father. So you call that "POV" and say Hunt was "an admitted master of disguise." Well, if that is so, then how can one possibly hope to identify such a "master of disguise"??? Seems to be quite the fall-back. I suppose if he looked like Michael Jordan and was 6 foot 10, then you'd say that "master of disguise" was at it again! The conspiracy theorists might be taken a bit more seriously if they weren't so silly. But that's my POV. Canada Jack ( talk) 01:01, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Here's a really good book in PDF form U can read for free online by Jurgen Graf, who is also mentioned as a "Denier" in the article. I'd like to see this book added to the article under his name. I have never seen it refuted . . . his arguement seems pretty solid. I also hafta agree, I was stunned by the bias in this article . . . a person who wants to know what "Holocaust Denial" is won't find the answer here. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 21:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Remove the biased introduction from the article. The article should present a neutral discussion of the controversy stating the arguments and counter-arguments and citing appropriate sources. With statements like "The methodologies of Holocaust deniers are criticized as based on a predetermined conclusion that ignores extensive historical evidence to the contrary" is judgemental and not appropriate for a encylopedia. I am changing it again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.103.45.129 ( talk) 03:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Happy to do what I can. There have been many editors interested in the political aspects of the trans pages, but I have long thought it a shame that far fewer contribute to pages that readers might derive practical benefit from.
— James Cantor (
talk) 17:29, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
I am sorry, but you seem to have ignored warnings and advice concerning standards for editing Wikipedia. Please see this discussion and let your peers know if you are willing to refrain from introducing original research and unreliable information into article talk pages. Perfection is not required, but you do need to show a willingness to learn and follow community standards. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 19:03, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. . See this edit. Jehochman Talk 21:22, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
See this diff. The editor was previously warned and has received extensive counseling here. They refuse to understand that Wikipedia is not for publishing original research and promoting conspiracy theories. Jehochman Talk 21:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
The article is biased and doesn't represent facts because U say the facts come from unreliable sorces. AE911Truth.org (Archetects & Engineers for 911 Truth) is not mentioned at all. We have a profesor at our university who is an archetect of heavy construction (bridges and more), who holds meetings a few times a year to discuss how the structure of the Twin Towers and WTC7 could never have fallen like that. If more archetects saw these videos (IMO, "Zeitgist" is propaganda) and read David Ray Griffin's books, they would join too. Popular Mechanics & Skeptic magazine aren't really reliable peer-reviewed journals (I've subscribed to Skeptic since the beginning and met/spoke to Michael Shermer several times, telling him he's not skeptical enough, etc. . . I inspired him to do the Holocaust issue but he ignored the forensics and logistics of the alleged murder weapon.) Griffin did a through debunking of the Popular Mechanics article/book. Popular Mechanics is like the Reader's Digest for mechanics. Do U consider Reader's Digest a reliable source or a place to pitch propaganda to the masses? I have nothing more to say on the article unless I find some more bias in it. I'd like to change the header to the topic I started to add, "Biased article" to see if other's agree. The article reads like a handout from the CIA or something that would appear in Reader's Digest. U wanna ban me 'cause U don't wanna have to deal with the elephant in the room, which is the pulverized dust several inches deep throughout Manhattan, the tiny debris pile, big, heavy beams hurled 600 yards, destruction of evidence at the crime scene, reliable witnesses/victims of explosions and molten metal in the basement. Could also be that if an Archetect/Engineer comes out agains't the Government's conspiracy theory, they would not get a government job. Like I said, I have nothing more to say there. If I do start another topic it will be after I look through the archives to see how many other people think the article is biased. I do promise to be very careful if I do post anything more there. I also want to watch the page to see how U handle other dissentors of the Official Conspiracy Theory. If Ur just gonna delete what they write on talk-pages like U did to me. It's only a matter of time before some prominant, retired archetect or a better, more informed dissentor comes along to challenge this article. There's no doubt in my mind thermobaric bombs brought down the WTCs. The two videos at the bottom of my webpage should be mentioned too. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 20:40, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
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Sandstein 14:07, 6 April 2009 (UTC)Raquel Baranow ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
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Here we go again with an unnecessary block by intolorant people. I was sincerely trying to improve the article (on the Talk-Page) at Controlled Demolition at the WTC, got ganged up on again. This is sooo Orwellian. The 9/11 fraud is much bigger that the JFK conspiracy . . . much easier to prove, more witnesses, more people affected (respritory disease) bigger elephant in the room (small debris pile, inches of pulverized dust throughout Manhattan, numerous witnesses and victims of bombs, no evidence of airplanes in Pennsylvania or the Pentagon, etc. etc. many prominant people questioning the government's conspiracy theory. The censors at the CD-Page are very intolorant, rigid, inflexible as to the sources they consider "reliable." They have erased what I wrote on the Talk-Page there but I re-wrote and rephrased it. (Lets see how long the above-link I provided works or if what I wrote will be archived.) The person who blocked me says he's NOT opposed to unblocking me as long as I'm topic-banned from commenting on 9/11. Makes U wonder why this 9/11 Topic is so sensitive that it requires special attention. Makes U wonder who these people really are and what they're afraid of?! Raquel Baranow ( talk) 15:07, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Decline reason:
You still haven't grasped how Wikipedia functions. I suggest you have another look at WP:NPOV, WP:V, and WP:NOR. PhilKnight ( talk) 15:28, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Okay, the comments by Raquel Baranow (talk · contribs) on this page have convinced me that her approach to editing Wikipedia is fundamentally incompatible with our goals and principles, and I have blocked her indefinitely. I do not object to an unblock by any administrator who disagrees, although I strongly recommend that, if unblocked, she is made subject to a 9/11 topic ban for which we have clear consensus here. Sandstein 14:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Endorse this block. However, if another administrator unblocks her, I propose that the subject ban is extended to Holocaust and Holocaust denial related articles. Enough time has already been spent patiently articulating to Raquel why her propositions are inappropriate, and I don't see why any more volunteer time should be wasted. WilliamH (talk) 15:31, 6 April 2009 (UTC) Definitely no objection to keeping her blocked until a topic ban is formulated. It doesn't look likely that this editor will ever do much that isn't counter-productive if allowed to edit these articles freely. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 15:38, 6 April 2009 (UTC) No problem with the block, especially as the editor posted a (declined) unblock request that essentially repeats various 9/11 allegations and accuses other editors of covering things up.--Hut 8.5 17:21, 6 April 2009 (UTC) Entirely reasonable block. MastCell Talk 18:13, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Unprotected. Please note that since you have an external link to this page from www.666ismoney.com you should take care what's put on this talkpage, both for your own and WP's sake. Tonywalton Talk 11:01, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Raquel Baranow ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
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I'm really sorry I didn't get along with the editors at the 9/11 controlled demolition page. I sincerely thought I could improve the article with the latest and best information about the current thinking of those who beleive thermobaric bombs brought down the WTC. I realize now that this is probably the hottest topic on Wikipedia that has tremendous implications for all the school-children and people in New York City who experienced first-hand 9/11. The editors of that page are very strict, I jumped, naively into HOT water there. Others, at the Holocaust-page have been more sympathetic and tolorant, nevertheless, some want me topic-banned there too. I have many other innocuous interests that I'd like to contribute to. I have made a few contributions and have made several friends here (plus I donated some $$$ and will donate more). I only started editing here in the past two months. Several years ago I attempted to edit ONE page and was rude and immature. Now, I have a dialogue and consensus at that page for a re-write. I really like Wikipedia. I come from a family of educators. I look at the editors of Wikipedia as like the Guardians in Plato's Republic. The persons who blocked me have said they have no objection as long as I'm topic-banned from 9/11 & Holocaust articles. I have helped a little at the Holocaust page and believe I can work with them. I admit that the 9/11-pages are a third rail at the moment until more prominant people come out asking for another Official investigation. I sincerely appologize for any trouble I caused anyone and, I sincerely thought I was doing good. Please unblock me, I promise to tread very lightly if you only block me from the 9/11 articles. IMO: the 9/11 articles are soooo damaged they will require a major re-write. The Holocaust denier's page isn't nearly as bad and I think I can work with those editors. I'm going on vacation for a coupla weeks in a coupla days. Peace & Love! :) Raquel Baranow ( talk) 13:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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Given the block and edit history, I don't see this user's absence as a loss to the project. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:06, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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I promise NOT to edit or discuss on Talk-Pages anything related to the Holocaust or 9/11, U won't even hafta topic-ban me, U have my word. I reached a consensus on the Number of the beast page to edit a paragraph, which was my main intent several years ago. I am essentially new here. I have made minor edits to articles on Nevada Prostitution and on Nadya Suleman Octuplets but the entire page has been redone (I have a topic there about her sanity). I made a mistake on the Mammon article that I'd like to correct. I'm a BIG fan of Natalie Dylan and would like to update that article when something new happens (I provided her MySpace link). I was working on contributing to the Amanita Muscaria article. I'd also like to add a list of famous people who have taken LSD and will discuss that. I'd also like to contribute to articles about Transsexualism. (I had a sex-change several years ago.) The TS pages were filled with weasel words and unverified content but a friend & I edited it out. I'm working with others on revising the virginity article (I was a 40-year-old virgin). I have a lot of info on breech birth I'd like to add (I was born breech). Raquel Baranow ( talk) 13:58, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
I'll remove the cuttings & pastings as well as the reference on my website if U unblock me. Already I noticed someone else on the Controlled demolition talk-page is trying to submit evidence of Thermite from a scientific journal and is having difficulty with the editors. Can U imagine if someone substituted "anecdotal evidence" for "eyewitness testimony" on the Holocaust page!? That's the way the Controlled demolition page reads today. I noticed someone removed the MySpace reference on Natalie Dylan's page. I'm watching about 65 Wiki-articles and have made many reverts of vandalism. I have many more subjects I'd like to watch and add to. I have over 1000 books in my library (mostly on the Holocaust and kennedy assassinations). I'm 53 years old. Since I was a Breech birth I have done a lot of research at the medical library (many years ago) . . . it's time to update my Breech Birth webpage. Being a virgin for over 40 years and having had many virgin GFs has given me a perspective on it -- another thing I'm doing research on. (I'm aware of "Original research".) Getting back to the Controlled demolition, how can an article that substitutes "anecdotal evidence" for "eyewitness testimony" be "reliable"?! A bigot is someone who is irrational & obstinant, that's what many people (including my smart brothers-in-law) are when it comes to "conspiracy theories." They have a knee-jerk rections. Hitler, in Chapter 10 of Mein Kampf said it well: "The broad masses more readily fall victims of the Big Lie than to a small one . . . they will continue to doubt and waiver thinking there must be some other explaination." I have lotsa really good, smart friends, several of them are/were politicians, scientists, educators. Yesterday I did my income tax . . . 23-pages, an adjusted gross income of $41k, yet I paid no federal taxes (I paid $22k in property taxes), I own my house free & clear. I've got enough $$$ to do whatever I want. I used to be homeless (by choice) and have been to Europe three times and Thailand twice. My friends call me a genius but I can't spell or type well. U guys at the Holocaust Denial & Controlled Demolition pages are being intolorant and double-minded about what U think are "reliable sources." The two articles are a joke! I was stunned when I read them. The Holocaust Denial talk-page and archives are filled with ppl who say the article is biased and doesn't explain what Holocaust denial is. I'm a different and unusual person (attributed to being a virgin so long and breech birth) . . . I'm always running into personality clashes and being called crazy. I made a mistake trying to add my 2-cents to two articles here. I'm not the first. The solution is NOT to ban/censor people who disagree but work with them. If U don't wanna work with me on those two pages, fine . . . someone else will come along and say the same things as I. I will continue to monitor those two pages . . . so far, I have enough material for a book about censorship, Orwellian thought-control & double-think at Wikipedia all archived on my computer. Do what U wish but if U unblock me . . . I'll probably be watching over 300 pages soon, the least I could do is revert vandalism. I was gonna leave on spring vacation today but the weekend in San Diego is rain so I'll leave Saturday or Sunday. "They" crucified Christ (the Logos, if he existed) for telling the truth . . . IMO, that's what U are doing to me by blocking me. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 13:18, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
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As you can see, when I first started out on Wikipedia, I ran into trouble editing controversial articles. I've been blocked for a couple of years but have been checking into Wikipedia daily, to keep informed about things that concern me. I learned a lot in the meantime about proper editing. I have no real intent to edit any articles but I may post information for edits on uncontroversial articles. The first edits I will do on my Talk page, I'd like to delete a few things I wrote about myself. At the time of my blocking I was very naive and unbalanced. In the past few years, pictures I've taken have been uploaded by other editors and used in two articles (that I know of), many other pics I've taken have been uploaded by others but not used. Thank You! (BTW: my User Page is still blocked, which is why I wrote this here.)
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Pages I'd like to edit other than my Talk Page: This picture is spamming the uploader's website, it has been flagged but nothing has been done, I'd like to replace the pic after deleting the website from the image. Raquel_Baranow ( talk) 04:46, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
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I would like to edit a couple of mentor's talk pages (or send them an email) to ask them to mentor me but I am blocked from editing their talk pages or sending editors/mentors an email. Thx! Raquel_Baranow ( talk) 22:05, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I've unblocked your account now that you've found a mentor. Please understand that you may be re-blocked if mentoring is ineffective. Good luck!--v/r - T P 18:22, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you're having to remove your signatures from articles. Are you putting ~~~~ at the bottom of article pages, or are you clicking the "signature and timestamp" button (found between the italics and hyperlink button at the top of the editing window) when editing an article? Unless you're using some sort of plug-in to edit, those would be how your signature would get into articles. Ian.thomson ( talk) 14:46, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
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Please don't repeat the past. Disruptive comments like the one you made at that AfD make one wonder whether your supervised release from an indef block is justified. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 01:17, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Raquel. I have removed a comment you made recently at Talk:Acharya S, because it could be interpreted as violating the policy at Wikipedia:No legal threats. I don't believe you were personally trying to make a legal threat, but you should avoid repeating off-wiki comments by others that could be interpreted as legal threats. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. -- RL0919 ( talk) 00:04, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I wanted to explain a bit over your edit in the article about CIA activities in Cambodia.
First, I wanted to explain on socialism and communism. You say that Khmer Rouge was communist, nowhere in the article does it stay it was socialist. It's completely right that Khmer Rouge was a communist party. But it's not called a communist regime. The article on communism defines communism as a classless, stateless and moneyless society. You agree that this is far from the Khmer Rouge's regime, don't you? The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is also a SOCIALIST state, desperat being ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party. As was the Union of SOCIALIST Soviet Republics, despite being ruled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Constitution of the Republic of Cuba also declares it a socialist state ruled by the Cuban Communist Party. These countries never considered themselves communist. They consider themselves socialist, with the plan of inventing communism one day. This kind of government is called Marxism-Leninism.
Also, I can't see any point with mentioning that it was "communist", other than to denigrate communism as an ideology (a violation of Wikipedia's strict NPOV policy). Vietnam was a socialist state ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, and Cambodia was a socialist state ruled by the communist FUNSK. Also, we can look at the "friends" and the "enemies" of the Khmer Rouge and PRK. Except China and Romania, hardly any socialist countries supported the Khmer Rouge. Aside from that, most of the Pol Pot's "friends" were Western countries, such as the United States and Great Britain. Even the Stalinist hardliner Enver Hoxha condemned Pol Pot and called him a fascist. The USSR and most socialist countries supported the PRK. The USSR was the only country in the Security Council to recognize the PRK. The US, UK, and China refused to recognize it, and instead continued to recognize a government-in-exile called the " Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea", led by Pol Pot. -- Te og kaker ( talk) 00:05, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestion at talk global warming, I already tweaked ver 3 with markup text so that the phrasing uses the phrasing in the supporting quote. You like? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 02:40, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks very much for investing energy and time contributing thoughts on efforts to draft a new first lead paragraph for Global warming. Please note I just posted ver 5 of my idea, and would welcome further pro/con criticism. I'm attempting to ping everyone who has taken time to speak up after past versions. If I overlooked anyone, please let me know. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 19:11, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
My primary reason for the edit you reverted there is that it was being added by a blocked editor, not particularly because of the content. It does seem better placed in a section other than "Changes in vegetation", though. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:45, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
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I don't know how to do "user talk" so...
It was actually a lesson to freshman high school boys/girls in how anyone can do anything on the internet and to not necessarily trust it. I was hoping it would last through the day tomorrow. It was benign and (imho) actually funny due to the penguin's actual range. But...
I guess not. Will you remove my future edits to the "South Sea" that say it is total BS? There is no such thing as an "ocean" which can be defined as a random area of water circumference around probably the largest land mass on our earth. And said water is contiguous with all other "actual" oceans and are merely a Southern extension of it? Are you some expert? Hmmm...
It is a historical term (which I respect) regarding ancient navigation. Otherwise it's... stupid to say.
Post that on the bs page under topic-category-subject-you-want
There is no such thing as a "southern sea" or "southern ocean". Don't believe everything you read... esp on the internet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimatrix ( talk • contribs) 06:36, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Oh and... I don't know your position on global warming but... we need more CO2. It's the sun. www.carbonstarvation.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimatrix ( talk • contribs) 06:52, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
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I'm trying to get the current version of "Cultural Marxism" a more neutral view point. I'm just going through right now and inviting people that might help. JobRot is doing the same, but only with people who are sympathetic to keeping the article in it's current non-neutral form. I don't know if inviting you/asking for help is not allowed, so if it is, feel free to delete. Thanks. Second Dark ( talk) 02:46, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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Have you read the article? These comments were made in the context of the clock incident: [9]. As such, the addition is warranted as it provide the necessary context for our readers. - Cwobeel (talk) 04:19, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
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In doing an edit to Diesel exhaust, I inadvertently changed something you had done. If it is still necessary -- you labeled the edit, something to do with chaining location of references -- could I bother you to do it again? My apologies for the wasted effort, but I cannot tell if the edit is still important, after my edit. Cheers. Le Prof 73.210.154.39 ( talk) 17:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I have to thank you for getting the license changed to CC on the Umpqua photographs on Flickr. Commons had drawn a blank on any decent photos of the campus. I will do this one tomorrow.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 20:57, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
I wasn't clear enough in my explanation; I'm sorry to have confused you. I didn't delete it because of a permissions problem with the photo: rather, the problem was with the content of the photo, a problem that would have qualified it for deletion even if you yourself had taken and freely-licensed the photo. Rather, the problem was that the photo is a derivative work of another copyrightable image, which itself isn't freely licensed — a major component was the sketch of a person, and the only way that this image could be acceptable is if the person responsible for drawing the sketch were to grant a free license for the sketch. Nyttend ( talk) 19:10, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello Raquel--I'm about to close an ANI discussion and came across this edit, containing the phrase "...is merely summarizing facts, something I have not read in any newspaper article." That, it seems to me, is pretty explicitly an endorsement of original research. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 21:53, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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.. do not get italics, they get quotes. And no, the "with" should not be capped. BMK ( talk) 03:07, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Raquel,
I have adjusted the x-axis label and the caption. I hope it is clearer now. I will leave the year zero on the left for now as this is the convention in the scientific literature (for now). Feel free to replace the old figure where you come across it. Thanks for the feedback! Fabrice.Lambert ( talk) 20:29, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
I removed the content. Not because it's a BLP, but because it's an encyclopedia article: this isn't a reliable secondary source, but merely a court document, a kind of document upon which no professional encyclopedia would rely as a source. Being an encyclopedia, we have no business relying on primary sources in writing articles on any subject: we need to rely on scholarly publications and other solidly vetted sources, not often-wrong news reports and other things without extensive opportunity for review and for chronological separation from their subjects, in deciding whether an idea is (1) likely to be true, and (2) a matter of any long-term significance. Nyttend ( talk) 03:14, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding your comment on Tesla page. Here's what 19th century newspapers wrote. Maybe you will be interested.
"Findings by Mr. Tesla in the electronic field are the following: He had found a way (and that is his secret) by which the electric waves can multiply in one second to a huge, almost infinite number, which was not possible up to now. On that finding many other consequences rest upon. For example, that electric waves are, what we call heat, light, electricity, magnetism. In another words – light, magnetism, heat and electricity are nothing else than electric waves in higher or lower number, upon which they depend and differently affect the man (burn him, kill him, or do nothing to him). Mr. Tesla had proven that mathematically correct. He hopes that with his findings he will be able to conduct the electric current where he pleases without any conductors. With his finding he is making electric currents and giving them different directions, and in their middle point he levitates heavy objects without any material support, etc. Generally speaking, the finding by Mr. Tesla will have huge practical use, not counting that a whole shift in science was made by it." 141.136.251.229 ( talk) 21:03, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
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Augustine was an amillennialist and his thought is more important than the recent protestant views which are based on false interpretations without any basis as the stupid idea that a RFID microchip implant is the mark. You should eliminate that kind of fundamentalist ideas unless you have a conflict of interest.
Agustine of Hippo by date has higher priority than all protestant ideas of the section "Mark of the Beast". There are thousands of ideas about the "mark" and I don't see how the XXI century ideas about the mark of the beast are more important and revelevant than the previous centuries ideas.
I don't know why you eliminated too the part of Revelation 20:4 where "the mark of beast" appears too. I see you do what you please. Rafaelosornio ( talk) 03:01, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
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Please see the YouTube channel Fishers of Evidence , "A series of videos on the Jesus myth v historicity debate, without taking sides..."
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that made no sense to have that there for the /info/en/?search=Extermination_camp page Jack90s15 ( talk) 18:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
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Raquel Baranow ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
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Please unblock me with the Standard Offer. The mistake that let to this block was, before going to work, I stated my opinion on Jimbo’s talk page about the WP: NONAZIS essay. When I got back from work, a few editors blocked me without me being able to defend myself. I made a few very minor mistakes recently, please look at my talk page history regarding the recent mistakes I made. Please also note my contributions and uploads on Wikimedia this past year. My first edit when my editing privileges are restored will be adding a US Census graph I found to the article on Immigration to the United States. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 02:53, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
Decline reason:
For the standard offer, you need to convince people your previous behaviour won't reappear. Nothing here convinces me of that. I think there is a path for you to be unblocked, but you'll need to convince us of this. One possible way is to propose a WP:TOPICBAN. You are free to suggest other ways, though. Yamla ( talk) 12:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
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Raquel Baranow ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Soapboxing on Jimbo’s talk page was wrong, “disruptive,” the OP was asking for Jimbo’s opinion, I should have posted my comment/ opinion on the WP:NONAZIS essay page. (Wonder what German WP thinks of the essay?) Live, learn, evolve. Please unblock me per the Standard Offer. I would like to make this world a better place by sharing knowledge. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 05:07, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
In regards fringe topics, I am an expert. For many years I attended weekly meetings of the Saturday Morning Breakfast Club, which had far right wing,
John Birch Society speakers and many fringe characters and politicians, even former Arizona Governor
Evan Mecham. Ninety-five percent of the stuff I didn’t agree with, I was there for the entertainment and afterwards would go hiking. I also am a charter subscriber to
Michael Shermer’s
Skeptic Magazine. I met him several times including at a psychedelic drug conference in San Francisco where he was speaking, he had lunch with me and I ear-banged him about several conspiracies. As you can see, in the past 12-years, I hardly ever add content to conspiracy articles anymore, but if I do, I’m fully aware about reliable sources.
Raquel Baranow (
talk) 21:47, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
Decline reason:
I have reviewed your contributions and your responses on this talk page. My conclusion is that you are a disruptive influence on the encyclopedia and have a tendency to demonstrate victim playing. This includes the numerous comments here that your block is "unfair", showing a lack of awareness of why the block was placed. The discussion below, where you seem to have a lack of awareness how posting something might be antisemetic, is extremely worrying and gives me no confidence you can edit in a constructive manner. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:48, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
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Raquel Baranow ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
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Ritchie333 declined my block even though I admitted that the poem I posted on Jimbo’s talk page was wrong, “disruptive”. He says I’m playing the victim because I thought the block was unfair. I struck those comments and previously admitted posting that shocking poem on Jimbo’s talk page was wrong. I hope an uninvolved* administrator unblocks me. Over many years, I have made many small contributions with photos and in the lede of the article on Communism, etc. Sometimes I do feel like a victim of cyber bullying on Wikipedia but understand that the “bullies” may be frustrated with having to deal with unruly vandals, like cops get frustrated with unruly criminals. This world needs radical lifestyle solutions or there will be mass death: peak oil and climate change. Another important graph I’m looking for shows how little progress we made toward renewable fuel. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 04:42, 3 November 2021 (UTC) :* OFF WIKI CANVASSING After Ritchie333 refused to unblock me, he went to a private area on Wikipediocracy, a thread entitled “Raquel Indeffed,” to tell all his friends. (A link to a screenshot of the conversation is available.) This is typical cyber bullying behavior: “ For example, 34 per cent of respondents in sub-Saharan Africa said they had been a victim of online bullying. Some 39 per cent said they knew about private online groups inside the school community where children share information about peers for the purpose of bullying.” Raquel Baranow ( talk) 13:16, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Procedural decline only. This block was superseded by a community ban. Yamla ( talk) 17:05, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
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You are free to continue donating photos to Wikimedia Commons. You are not blocked there. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 18:34, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
If I could, I would edit this table to include the four U.S. population projections (Low, Medium, High and No Immigrants) given in the reference I provided in 2019. Mom bought The Population Bomb when I was a teenager (1968), I read it. That's why I posted this picture on my user page, which was removed by User:Drmies because " this is not your personal website where you can post anti-semitic pictures".This picture may incite anti-Semitism but, it is also anti-immigrant, it also won Picture of the Year for Paintings in 2016, which is where I saw it and voted for it. I made many contributions to Wikimedia. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 04:50, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
But there are other problems: here you seem to come to the defense of a man who's made a career out of antisemitic comments, and yet you ask "well why don't they give us the antisemitic memes?". What you fail to understand is that Wikipedia is not an information dump where the reader should make up their own mind: the source cited for that statement about the memes is a reliable source, and that means we are under no obligation to cite or demand the primary evidence that the author of the article collected and the editors saw fit to print. That's the essence of what we do. And here you cite a fringe book, while adding "controversial", which can hardly be based on that very book--so you're editorializing. For an editor who's been here since 2005, that's really not easy to forgive.
I see no reason why this block should be lifted, and I doubt that an unblock request would be successful. What could be done, if Cullen328 agrees, is that you write up something and we post it on WP:AN for the community to decide, but most likely that will result in more criticism of a less diplomatic nature. Drmies ( talk) 14:41, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Drmies: The cartoon is not "obviously" antisemetic, it could be Anti-Judaism or Anti religion; it's also anti-immigration and led to the Immigration Act of 1924, which "especially affected Italians, Greeks and Eastern European Jews, as well as Poles and other Slavs." If the cartoon was Anti-Masonry, would that score no opprobrium from you?
National Socialism (Nazi Party) is a Political Party. The Wikipedia article for General George S Patton says, "Patton attracted controversy and repeatedly compared Nazis to Democrats and Republicans." So should Germans who were National Socialists not edit Wikipedia? Please discuss here.
You're selectively quoting me, full quote, which I stand by is
here, on Owen Benjamin's Talk Page: Not really fair in a BLP to say he has antisemitic conspiracy theories and memes without telling readers what those theories/ memes are. Even the sources cited don’t explain what those ideas are.
The contested section in the article added examples and I was satisfied, my comment wasn't in vain.
My "editoralizing" should be "easy to forgive," there are two reliable sources that say the location of the Temples in Jerusalem is controversial. That WP article says it's "contentious": "The exact location of the Temple is a contentious issue, as questioning the exact placement of the Temple is often associated with Temple denial."
One of the two RSs backs up exactly what I said at the Talk Page you cited, above, regarding Ernest L. Martin's "controversial" theory about the location of the Temple in Jerusalem.
RS 1:
Wailing at the wrong wall? Challenging accepted tradition, some researchers have proposed a controversial new perspective on Jerusalem’s ancient Temple Mount and the location of the temple.... Not without controversy, they have revolved their arguments around what they consider to be a misreading or dismissal of the literature by Josephus and others regarding the size and location of Fortress Antonia.
RS 2:
Antonia: The Fortress Jerusalem Forgot: A controversial theory challenges long-held tradition and scholarship on the Fortress of Antonia, with game-changing implications for the location of the Jerusalem temple of biblical times.... Few modern scholars had a better hands-on knowledge of Temple Mount topography than Dr. Ernest L Martin, who first published his unorthodox and controversial findings on the location of the Solomonic and Herodian temples in 1998.
For these reasons, and more to come, this block should be lifted. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 05:25, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
Saw these two Leptotes marina mating on my car antenna today!
Raquel Baranow ( talk) 05:08, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
Many of my pictures on Flickr were uploaded to Wikimedia by someone else.
I'll move this to my User Page when my block is removed; soon I'll appeal the block.
Raquel Baranow ( talk) 04:12, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Yamla, a few of my recent mistakes were technical: on one of them I should have said in the edit summary that I copy/ pasted the references from another article. Before doing that, I did check the sources and one of the sources looked really good, the website was very well done. Another edit I got alerted to on my talk page required a hyperlink to an article I didn’t know existed until later. My original sins from way back was Original Research and Unreliable Sources; I understand those concepts completely. I’ll agree to not post on Jimbo’s talk page anymore. I will watch my Ps & Qs: Note that I contributed pictures to that article. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 18:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Block review : Raquel Baranow. Thank you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:14, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Following the ANI discussion, you are now site-banned. There was no appeal term established in the discussion, but I doubt that any appeal earlier than 6 months from now would be taken seriously.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 17:03, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
User:Raquel Baranow/sandbox, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Raquel Baranow/sandbox and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Raquel Baranow/sandbox during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. :3 F4U ( they /it) 05:29, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
P.S. I am not allowed to edit or comment at the deletion discussion. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 16:03, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi! I have reverted your (repeated) addition of the remark about the translation of χάραγμα. Not only was it formulated in a manner inconsistent with WP:NPOV, but I also could not find any support for the claim in that lexicon. The website you provided was unhelpful (well, blatantly wrong and non-notable, actually). Please read WP:NPOV, WP:V and WP:EL for more information. — xyzzy n 09:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
“ | Καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ἐξέχεεν τὴν φιάλην αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν γῆν: καὶ ἐγένετο ἕλκος κακὸν καὶ πονηρὸν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς ἔχοντας τὸ χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου+ καὶ τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας τῇ εἰκόνι αὐτοῦ. | ” |
“ | And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. | ” |
“ | A. any mark engraved, imprinted, or branded, […] ἔχειν τὸ χ. τοῦ θηρίου Apoc.16.2 , cf. 13.16; | ” |
“ | 2. stamped money, coin, AP5.29 (Antip.Thess.), POxy.144.6 (vi A. D.). | ” |
You don't get it, look at the CONTEXT: "No one buys or sells (BUYS OR SELLS) without the MONEY of the beast on/in mind or hand." Liddell and Scott are telling the context of the words or the places they appear in documents under translations throughout the ages.
Antipater Thessalonicensis wrote at the same time as the Revelation was composed (66 AD) and POxy.144.6 was written in the Fourth Century AC, which means that the greek word χάραγμα meant MONEY at the time Revelations was written.
Liddel-Scott are only documenting how the word had meaning at the times specified. As you know, words change meanings over time. χάραγμα meant MONEY at the time the "revelation" was written.
The bible "scholars" mistranslated the word χάραγμα like they do with the Aramaic word Mammon,which is only translated correctly in the New Oxford English Bible. (Or "Logos" is NOT translated as Logic in John 1:1.)
Jesus-Christ (if he existed) said, "You can't serve God & MONEY [mammon is an Aramaic word for money] ... but the Pharisees, who loved money (philarguron) heard all this and scoffed." Like you're scoffing too. (See Luke 16.)
Jesus also told his disciples, like the Buddha did, to not carry and gold, silver, script or brass in their purse.
Jesus also said, "Who's picture is on the $$$?" Caesar's!
Also, xyzzy_n, I am NOT skilled at formatting html.
You allow the Jehovah's Witnesses and several others to voice their opinion you should NOT censor mine just because I am self-published.
Please don't censor my opinion: look at the context. χάραγμα was known as money when Revelation was written. (2. stamped money, coin, AP5.29 (Antip.Thess.) <-- Antip.Thess. lived at the time the Revelation was written.
Peace, Love & Truth, Raquel
No, xyzzy_n, you DO need to look at the context and the definition of chargma. I may not have a following like the Jehovah's Witnesses do but I'm right and you ARE a Pharissitical censor of the truth!
I'll bet you hide your theory in the page somewhere. Like, why do these people get their theory in and not me? Who the hell are they?!
What good are their references? My reference comes from the Unabridged Greek-English Lexicon by Lidell and Scott!
Peace & Love, Raquel
My reference to the context and definition of Charagma = MONEY comes from the Unabridged greek-English Lexicon by Liddell & Scott. You can see a JPEG image of the definition on my flickr-photos and, here's an online version of the definition of the word, χάραγμα, which means MONEY, here's another online Liddel-Scott reference to Charagma.
You don't care about Truth, like a Pharisee you crucify the Logos-Logic of God!
The Liddell & Scott Lexicon is a dictionary, which tells the context of words. Nearly all bibles translate χάραγμα as "Mark" 'cause they don't know any better (they had abridged dictionaries or they didn't have a good Lexicon), they're ignorant or afraid of the truth! Raquel Baranow ( talk) 04:51, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
New Section
Under the subject heading "Mark of Commerce" the definition of Xαραγμα has other meanings besides "Mark." If U look at this reference from an Unabridged Greek-English Lexicon, U can see that is also means, MONEY or coin. Hence: "No one buys and sells without the MONEY of the beast." Nero's face was impressed on the coins. The " Revelation" was written around 66 A.D. at time Nero lived, the Jews revolted against the Romans and the Jews started coining their own money. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 03:19, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey: Apologies, on looking back into this, I do see some seriously problematic edits from you... but they're from 2005, hardly worth a concern now. I've reviewed all your edits from this year and it seems to me that your edits from this period are okay. So I'm going to unblock you to file your username change request. But it is worth reminding you that despite your own personal observations, Wikipedia article content must be based on reliable sources and presented in proportion to their prominence. Mango juice talk 18:25, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, Mangojuice! . . . I just submitted a new username and, yes, the REAL problems I had were waaay back in 2005. If any administrator wants to edit my page to remove any of the above related to this block it would be appreciated. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 19:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I had some concerns with the amount of information you were displaying on your userpage. It's generally not safe to publish that much personally-identifiable information online. I've removed it and asked for it to be deleted permanently. I hope you don't take offence; I'm just concerned about safety. // roux 08:03, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. This is a friendly notification that all 9/11 articles are under general sanctions. Please be especially careful before editing further there to familiarize yourself with WP:ARB9/11. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 16:42, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Raquel - please see our policies on original research and verifyable and reliable sources. Also, one of our core values is that we retain a neutral point of view in all matters.
Your opinion and contributions here are non-neutral, are original research, are not published in reliable sources.
Wikipedia is not a place to fight external fights such as attempting to raise public visibility of fringe theories. You yourself know and acknowledge that your opinions are not mainstream. Attempting to use Wikipedia to soapbox, or promote those theories is also a violation of our policies.
If you can review and abide by those policies you are welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. If you reject those policies, then Wikipedia is not an appropriate venue for your contributions.
It's up to you to chose whether to abide by our goals and core values. We are not the thing you seem to think we should be in this case - we're an encyclopedia, not those other things. If you can contribute under our policy to the encyclopedia then please do. If not, please don't force us to block you from editing permanently. Just walk away from participation here with no hard feelings.
Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 20:43, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
U keep saying "reliable source" but that is a very subjective term: Government is NOT always a "reliable source."
If U guys leave me alone and didn't erase stuff I write, like at the Talk Page for Controlled Demolition at the WTC, everything would be alright. I reworded the stuff someone erased and included MANY references . . . U or someone else can sort them out as "reliable" or not . . . I was merely suggesting that the Government's explaination of the tiny debris pile and several inches of toxic dust throughout Manhattan is rediculous! A more likely explaination is a Thermobaric bomb. If U Google, "Thermobaric" + "wtc" U will see many "reliable sources."
But of course . . . it would be sooooo much easier 4 U editors to ban and censor me! Raquel Baranow ( talk) 21:04, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
(outdenting again for ease of typing)
Raquel - talking about the underlying facts... Take a look at Gravitational potential energy#Gravitational potential energy. A kilogram of material 415 meters above the ground has 4,070 joules of energy. A ton of material has aout 4.1 megajoules of energy - about the energy in a kilogram of TNT (4.2 Mj), which is enough to break a ton of concrete and steel into a bunch of small chunks of metal and a lot of concrete dust and small chunks.
The collapses didn't smash the buildings into tiny short stacks of material. You're forgetting the WTC basements. There was 60 feet of space under the plaza level, between bedrock and the plaza. The debris piles were about 70 feet tall on the average - sticking up a bit above ground level, but mostly compacted in the former basement spaces. That roughly 20:1 compaction lines up well with the former empty space fraction of the buildings - once collapsed, most of the air space between floors went away, but that's about it. Looking at the video, piles of wreckage, etc - they clearly weren't blown up by bombs. All the videos clearly show vertical or near vertical collapse of all the debris, other than small puffs of air and debris out the sides as floors were collapsed together. If there had been enough bombs to do serious damage, you'd have seen much more fragmentation and windows shattering out all sides. Thermobarics don't neatly sever structural columns - they overpressure a whole volume, blowing out windows, floors, ceilings. Windows would have been shattered outwards at very high velocity, you'd have seen visible shockwaves coming out the windows, etc. The points at which the collapse started clearly were within the floors which were on fire from the aircraft strikes. You can't use a thermobaric or FAE explosive in a room or space that's on fire - the fire will simply ignite or burn the explosive during the dispersal process, taking away the dispersed detonation behavior. You get a big puff of fire, not a detonation.
Even if the building had been completely wired up for a controlled demolition, assuming someone had planned that from the beginning, any explosive material available (and any reasonable wires for detonators for it) would have ignited and burned away from the surrounding fire. One could hypothesize that someone wired the building for demolitions and then exploded other parts of it - but the collapse behavior clearly was the blocks of the buildings above the fire zone falling down into the structure below them, indicating that whatever happened started right where the fires were hottest. There was far more energy and momentum in the falling structure than was needed to shatter and collapse the rest of the structure, at that point.
Simple collapse explains the debris pile and dust just fine. See for example [2] - the total gravitational energy in the 600,000 tons of structure and fittings per building was about equal to about 280 tons of TNT (per tower). That's plenty enough to squash the debris and break it into little pieces, and compact what's left into the former basement spaces.
This is intrinsic to highrise buildings. You get the same short debris pile with actual controlled demolitions, if you look at them. They use careful precutting and a few tens of kilograms of explosive to bring down a building that weighs tens of thousands of tons - and it collapses into a small pile of debris.
Fire and local structural collapse explains WTC just fine. Any theory with explosives doesn't explain where the collapse started, because any explosives at the collapse points would have burned off in the fire. Thermobarics would be even more vulnerable to the heat and then burning / flame environment, and are even less credible than normal explosives. But the heat of the fire was 2-3 times hotter than the hottest temperature the most heat resistant explosives in the world can stand before they break down and burn away (most explosives burn just fine, without detonating, if you light them on fire or heat them enough in an oven).
I appreciate that you mean well with all this. But explosives really don't make any sense at all here. They aren't a better explanation. They're a worse explanation. Really much worse. Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 21:12, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
WTC Twin Towers: EXPLOSIVE Evidence
· Nearly free-fall acceleration through path of greatest resistance · Improbable symmetry of debris distribution · Extremely rapid onset of destruction · Over one hundred first responders reported explosions & flashes · Multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally 600 ft at 50 mph · Mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking · Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic-like clouds · 1200 foot diameter debris field: no “pancaked” floors found · Isolated explosive ejections 20-40 stories below demolition front · Total building destruction: dismemberment of steel frame · Several tons of molten iron found under all three high-rises · Evidence of thermite incendiaries found in steel & dust samples · FEMA steel analysis: sulfidation, oxidation & intergranular melting · No precedent for steel-framed high-rise collapse due to fire (WTC-7) SOURCE: AE911Truth.org Raquel Baranow ( talk) 10:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Your discussion on AN/I is getting into some trouble where you don't understand our verifyability and reliable sources requirements. Your comments about orwellian ignorance of the truth need to be followed up on...
We don't care about "The Truth" not because we don't want to be accurate - on the contrary, we entirely do - but because we have no way of knowing what any contributor's actual experience, credentials, and validity are.
As I mentioned when I first started talking to you - people have claimed all sorts of crazy things including UFO attacks, earthquake faults, meteor strikes for the WTC collapses. We have no way of knowing if the person who writes "It was certainly a meteor impact, see the shockwave pattern and damage to surrounding buildings, the airburst pattern, etc" is a NASA meteor impact expert or a 13 year old kid who was watching the Armageddon movie and mistakes computer graphics for reality.
We have no way of knowing if "The Truth" that anyone claims has any validity to it.
What we do know, and can check on and confirm, is that Person X wrote thing Y in publication / book / newspaper / etc. Z. We can look at publication / book / newspaper Z and determine if they generally do fact-checking, scientific or engineering peer review, if it's a serious publication or a popular press, etc. We can also confirm things like "Publications A, B, C, D, E all carried articles saying that Y happened".
Websites are bad sources. They're bad sources because any person can put one up - there's no way to verify that they do fact checking, that they did any peer review, etc. There's no way to tell for sure who put it up, and what their real credentials and experience are. I could tell you here that I have been on a team that's imploded 20 buildings in controlled demolitions, and you have no reasonable way to confirm or refute that claim... (just to be clear - I have not actually done that... I have some experience with explosives, including both theory and practice, and an engineering degree, and I've looked at the analysies done for building collapses, terrorist bomb damage, structural engineering issues, etc. But I don't take buildings down for a living). I could say I was a university professor (I am not), etc.
We focus on reliable sources and verifyable sources because we don't have any idea who is putting information here, really, and we have no way to tell if someone claiming to know something really does. We can't tell if you're a qualified expert, or if I am. So we assume nobody is, and we insist that you do your homework and cite your references and sources for anything which seems questionable.
I don't believe any source is never going to be mistaken, or that any source could never be corrupted. But we judge the credibility of sources by how official they are - academic peer reviewed things are great, official reports by organizations are great, publications that include more references and which show their work and analysis and which are supported by other research are great.
Talking about fringe theories, there usually isn't much good coverage. But even with fringe theories, you find some people who have some credibility talking about things. There are some college professors and engineers associated with the 9/11 conspiracy groups. We can accurately report that those people have made statements or done analysies.
The problem with your thermobarics claims is that as far as I know, none of the experts in the 9/11 conspiracy crowd who know explosives have supported them. So it's not even reliably sourced or verifyable by standards *within the fringe group*...
That's the sort of support that ideas need to be included in Wikipedia. Even if the experts in the conspiracy stuff are way outside the mainstream, you need them to support the idea enough to justify including it here. So far as far as I can tell, none of them do. And from what I know on FAE / Thermobarics, there's not much chance that anyone would support it, given that it would be pretty much impossible to do that with those types of explosives, and it would have looked completely different if someone had tried.
So, please understand that it's important to find sources and references. If you can find some which are reasonably reliable in the context of the demolition conspiracy people, then please provide them. If there aren't any, you should consider why there aren't... perhaps it's because it's just an incorrect idea.
Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert ( talk) 00:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Raquel Baranow. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 19:05, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
For the record and my reference, so this discussion won't get lost, I'm copying it here. it is archived HERE.
Account espousing conspiracy theories; Intervention needed
This account is soapboxing and causing trouble:
The account is wasting other editors time and disrupting talk pages. I'd like to see if somebody else could intervene and explain how Wikipedia works before more time is wasted. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 19:04, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
I hafta go for about 72-hours. I also promise to be more careful in the Discussion Pages but please don't ban me or erase anything I've written! If U want me to erase or edit something, please discuss it on my Talk Page before erasing what I have written! Raquel Baranow ( talk) 21:24, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
"My purpose here at Wiki is to establish the truth". With the best will in the world, on her own talk page this editor claims to have been around since 2005; if s/he hasn't got the clue by now, and does not move forward, it has to be "kiss, kiss, bye-bye". Without the kisses. We have far too many such editors and give them far too much leeway as it is. Absent a severe change of attitude, it's time for a kick+door scenario. -- Rodhull andemu 01:19, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Georgewilliamherbert ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) has been patiently trying to explain things to the user, which is what I hoped for when starting this thread. Unfortunately, the user is playing the "I can't hear you" game and is very likely to continue making contributions that are only disruptive and violating policies. As a result, I think it would be a good idea to place an indefinite block until such time as the user agrees to follow policy. We need to protect our volunteers from wasting time dealing with somebody who is obviously a deep believer in conspiracy and fringe theories, to the point that they will our behavioral and editorial norms to accomplish their agenda. Attempts to educate the user may continue, and the user could be unblocked if those attempts prove successful. Jehochman Talk 08:48, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Blogs cannot be reliably used in a case like this so I suggest Block per Wikipedia:General sanctions. rdunn PLIB 14:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Alex: U will see below that I have stopped abbreviating stuff . . . I'm also not too good at spelling. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 20:07, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
←Actually, Raquel, if you actually read the criticisms of your edits you'll see that what is being attacked is not your theory, nor you (with some exceptions on both counts, and GWH's comments on civility in this forum are well made). What is being debated is that there are no reliable sources, in WP terms, for what you are claiming. If you can come up with reliable, verifiable sources, please do so. You may feel that by definition "the Government" or "they" are in control of what we're terming "reliable sources". If so, then so be it. You may have a slightly wrong idea about what WP is. It is not a vehicle for the Truth. It is a tertiary encyclopædic source, reporting what has already been reported elsewhere. That is what it's for. That is why it is neither a vehicle for original research nor a platform to "give explainations to the people who died" (I suspect it would take more than WP to offer explanations to the dead anyway). Please read, rather than discounting as "attacks by faceless/nameless people" what has been said, read the pages you're being pointed to, such as WP:RS, WP:V, WP:NOT and WP:FRINGE (that last is not intended as an insult, please read it to discover why. Tonywalton Talk 17:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Raquel, as has been explained to you repeatedly, Wikipedia is not the place for you to float your novel interpretations of history, whether they be on the Holocaust, the JFK assassination, or the World Trade Center attacks. You have a blog where you can do that and Usenet can still be found where it always was. I know you can't have forgotten this because you archived the whole WP:ANI discussion on your talk page [ [5]]. I can't imagine that it isn't clear to you by now. You're not going to revise the generally accepted view of history on Wikipedia. That's not what an encyclopedia is for. -- Steven J. Anderson ( talk) 02:55, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
You said on WP:AN/I you'd had a heart attack a short time ago, Regardless of anything to do with edits on Wikipedia, best wishes for a swift recovery! Tonywalton Talk 00:40, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
A picture is worth 1000 words. I have some pics comparing Hunt, Sturgis, Holt & Harrelson to the Three Tramps as well as my conclusion and info that two of the Tramps were indeed Hunt & Sturgis, HERE. The Rockefeller Commission never published any pics of Hunt, Sturgis & the Tramps. The HSCA Commission used lousy pics of Hunt & Sturgis to compare to the Tramps. Show the pics, let ppl judge for themselves. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 21:29, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
What is so tired and pathetic about these people not accepting that the three tramps were in fact simply that - three tramps - is what they are asking us to accept here. Namely that the "old" tramp, is in fact Hunt who, in 1963, would have been YOUNGER (born 1918) than the man he supposedly conspired to kill (Kennedy was born 1917). One look at that photo would tell any reasonable person that these are different people. Of course, we aren't dealing with reasonable people here... Canada Jack ( talk) 21:02, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Again, how do you expect us to believe that that old tramp who looks like he was old enough to be Kennedy's father, was in fact Mr. Hunt who was younger than Kennedy? We don't have to take anyone's "word" for it - the answer is rather obvious, Raquel: The man was not Hunt. Canada Jack ( talk) 23:55, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Let me get this straight. You claim that that photo is of Mr. Hunt. I say that Hunt was younger than Kennedy, yet the man you claim to be him appears to be old enough to be his father. So you call that "POV" and say Hunt was "an admitted master of disguise." Well, if that is so, then how can one possibly hope to identify such a "master of disguise"??? Seems to be quite the fall-back. I suppose if he looked like Michael Jordan and was 6 foot 10, then you'd say that "master of disguise" was at it again! The conspiracy theorists might be taken a bit more seriously if they weren't so silly. But that's my POV. Canada Jack ( talk) 01:01, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Here's a really good book in PDF form U can read for free online by Jurgen Graf, who is also mentioned as a "Denier" in the article. I'd like to see this book added to the article under his name. I have never seen it refuted . . . his arguement seems pretty solid. I also hafta agree, I was stunned by the bias in this article . . . a person who wants to know what "Holocaust Denial" is won't find the answer here. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 21:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Remove the biased introduction from the article. The article should present a neutral discussion of the controversy stating the arguments and counter-arguments and citing appropriate sources. With statements like "The methodologies of Holocaust deniers are criticized as based on a predetermined conclusion that ignores extensive historical evidence to the contrary" is judgemental and not appropriate for a encylopedia. I am changing it again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.103.45.129 ( talk) 03:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
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See this diff. The editor was previously warned and has received extensive counseling here. They refuse to understand that Wikipedia is not for publishing original research and promoting conspiracy theories. Jehochman Talk 21:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
The article is biased and doesn't represent facts because U say the facts come from unreliable sorces. AE911Truth.org (Archetects & Engineers for 911 Truth) is not mentioned at all. We have a profesor at our university who is an archetect of heavy construction (bridges and more), who holds meetings a few times a year to discuss how the structure of the Twin Towers and WTC7 could never have fallen like that. If more archetects saw these videos (IMO, "Zeitgist" is propaganda) and read David Ray Griffin's books, they would join too. Popular Mechanics & Skeptic magazine aren't really reliable peer-reviewed journals (I've subscribed to Skeptic since the beginning and met/spoke to Michael Shermer several times, telling him he's not skeptical enough, etc. . . I inspired him to do the Holocaust issue but he ignored the forensics and logistics of the alleged murder weapon.) Griffin did a through debunking of the Popular Mechanics article/book. Popular Mechanics is like the Reader's Digest for mechanics. Do U consider Reader's Digest a reliable source or a place to pitch propaganda to the masses? I have nothing more to say on the article unless I find some more bias in it. I'd like to change the header to the topic I started to add, "Biased article" to see if other's agree. The article reads like a handout from the CIA or something that would appear in Reader's Digest. U wanna ban me 'cause U don't wanna have to deal with the elephant in the room, which is the pulverized dust several inches deep throughout Manhattan, the tiny debris pile, big, heavy beams hurled 600 yards, destruction of evidence at the crime scene, reliable witnesses/victims of explosions and molten metal in the basement. Could also be that if an Archetect/Engineer comes out agains't the Government's conspiracy theory, they would not get a government job. Like I said, I have nothing more to say there. If I do start another topic it will be after I look through the archives to see how many other people think the article is biased. I do promise to be very careful if I do post anything more there. I also want to watch the page to see how U handle other dissentors of the Official Conspiracy Theory. If Ur just gonna delete what they write on talk-pages like U did to me. It's only a matter of time before some prominant, retired archetect or a better, more informed dissentor comes along to challenge this article. There's no doubt in my mind thermobaric bombs brought down the WTCs. The two videos at the bottom of my webpage should be mentioned too. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 20:40, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
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Here we go again with an unnecessary block by intolorant people. I was sincerely trying to improve the article (on the Talk-Page) at Controlled Demolition at the WTC, got ganged up on again. This is sooo Orwellian. The 9/11 fraud is much bigger that the JFK conspiracy . . . much easier to prove, more witnesses, more people affected (respritory disease) bigger elephant in the room (small debris pile, inches of pulverized dust throughout Manhattan, numerous witnesses and victims of bombs, no evidence of airplanes in Pennsylvania or the Pentagon, etc. etc. many prominant people questioning the government's conspiracy theory. The censors at the CD-Page are very intolorant, rigid, inflexible as to the sources they consider "reliable." They have erased what I wrote on the Talk-Page there but I re-wrote and rephrased it. (Lets see how long the above-link I provided works or if what I wrote will be archived.) The person who blocked me says he's NOT opposed to unblocking me as long as I'm topic-banned from commenting on 9/11. Makes U wonder why this 9/11 Topic is so sensitive that it requires special attention. Makes U wonder who these people really are and what they're afraid of?! Raquel Baranow ( talk) 15:07, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
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You still haven't grasped how Wikipedia functions. I suggest you have another look at WP:NPOV, WP:V, and WP:NOR. PhilKnight ( talk) 15:28, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
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Okay, the comments by Raquel Baranow (talk · contribs) on this page have convinced me that her approach to editing Wikipedia is fundamentally incompatible with our goals and principles, and I have blocked her indefinitely. I do not object to an unblock by any administrator who disagrees, although I strongly recommend that, if unblocked, she is made subject to a 9/11 topic ban for which we have clear consensus here. Sandstein 14:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Endorse this block. However, if another administrator unblocks her, I propose that the subject ban is extended to Holocaust and Holocaust denial related articles. Enough time has already been spent patiently articulating to Raquel why her propositions are inappropriate, and I don't see why any more volunteer time should be wasted. WilliamH (talk) 15:31, 6 April 2009 (UTC) Definitely no objection to keeping her blocked until a topic ban is formulated. It doesn't look likely that this editor will ever do much that isn't counter-productive if allowed to edit these articles freely. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 15:38, 6 April 2009 (UTC) No problem with the block, especially as the editor posted a (declined) unblock request that essentially repeats various 9/11 allegations and accuses other editors of covering things up.--Hut 8.5 17:21, 6 April 2009 (UTC) Entirely reasonable block. MastCell Talk 18:13, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Unprotected. Please note that since you have an external link to this page from www.666ismoney.com you should take care what's put on this talkpage, both for your own and WP's sake. Tonywalton Talk 11:01, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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I'm really sorry I didn't get along with the editors at the 9/11 controlled demolition page. I sincerely thought I could improve the article with the latest and best information about the current thinking of those who beleive thermobaric bombs brought down the WTC. I realize now that this is probably the hottest topic on Wikipedia that has tremendous implications for all the school-children and people in New York City who experienced first-hand 9/11. The editors of that page are very strict, I jumped, naively into HOT water there. Others, at the Holocaust-page have been more sympathetic and tolorant, nevertheless, some want me topic-banned there too. I have many other innocuous interests that I'd like to contribute to. I have made a few contributions and have made several friends here (plus I donated some $$$ and will donate more). I only started editing here in the past two months. Several years ago I attempted to edit ONE page and was rude and immature. Now, I have a dialogue and consensus at that page for a re-write. I really like Wikipedia. I come from a family of educators. I look at the editors of Wikipedia as like the Guardians in Plato's Republic. The persons who blocked me have said they have no objection as long as I'm topic-banned from 9/11 & Holocaust articles. I have helped a little at the Holocaust page and believe I can work with them. I admit that the 9/11-pages are a third rail at the moment until more prominant people come out asking for another Official investigation. I sincerely appologize for any trouble I caused anyone and, I sincerely thought I was doing good. Please unblock me, I promise to tread very lightly if you only block me from the 9/11 articles. IMO: the 9/11 articles are soooo damaged they will require a major re-write. The Holocaust denier's page isn't nearly as bad and I think I can work with those editors. I'm going on vacation for a coupla weeks in a coupla days. Peace & Love! :) Raquel Baranow ( talk) 13:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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Given the block and edit history, I don't see this user's absence as a loss to the project. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:06, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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I promise NOT to edit or discuss on Talk-Pages anything related to the Holocaust or 9/11, U won't even hafta topic-ban me, U have my word. I reached a consensus on the Number of the beast page to edit a paragraph, which was my main intent several years ago. I am essentially new here. I have made minor edits to articles on Nevada Prostitution and on Nadya Suleman Octuplets but the entire page has been redone (I have a topic there about her sanity). I made a mistake on the Mammon article that I'd like to correct. I'm a BIG fan of Natalie Dylan and would like to update that article when something new happens (I provided her MySpace link). I was working on contributing to the Amanita Muscaria article. I'd also like to add a list of famous people who have taken LSD and will discuss that. I'd also like to contribute to articles about Transsexualism. (I had a sex-change several years ago.) The TS pages were filled with weasel words and unverified content but a friend & I edited it out. I'm working with others on revising the virginity article (I was a 40-year-old virgin). I have a lot of info on breech birth I'd like to add (I was born breech). Raquel Baranow ( talk) 13:58, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
I'll remove the cuttings & pastings as well as the reference on my website if U unblock me. Already I noticed someone else on the Controlled demolition talk-page is trying to submit evidence of Thermite from a scientific journal and is having difficulty with the editors. Can U imagine if someone substituted "anecdotal evidence" for "eyewitness testimony" on the Holocaust page!? That's the way the Controlled demolition page reads today. I noticed someone removed the MySpace reference on Natalie Dylan's page. I'm watching about 65 Wiki-articles and have made many reverts of vandalism. I have many more subjects I'd like to watch and add to. I have over 1000 books in my library (mostly on the Holocaust and kennedy assassinations). I'm 53 years old. Since I was a Breech birth I have done a lot of research at the medical library (many years ago) . . . it's time to update my Breech Birth webpage. Being a virgin for over 40 years and having had many virgin GFs has given me a perspective on it -- another thing I'm doing research on. (I'm aware of "Original research".) Getting back to the Controlled demolition, how can an article that substitutes "anecdotal evidence" for "eyewitness testimony" be "reliable"?! A bigot is someone who is irrational & obstinant, that's what many people (including my smart brothers-in-law) are when it comes to "conspiracy theories." They have a knee-jerk rections. Hitler, in Chapter 10 of Mein Kampf said it well: "The broad masses more readily fall victims of the Big Lie than to a small one . . . they will continue to doubt and waiver thinking there must be some other explaination." I have lotsa really good, smart friends, several of them are/were politicians, scientists, educators. Yesterday I did my income tax . . . 23-pages, an adjusted gross income of $41k, yet I paid no federal taxes (I paid $22k in property taxes), I own my house free & clear. I've got enough $$$ to do whatever I want. I used to be homeless (by choice) and have been to Europe three times and Thailand twice. My friends call me a genius but I can't spell or type well. U guys at the Holocaust Denial & Controlled Demolition pages are being intolorant and double-minded about what U think are "reliable sources." The two articles are a joke! I was stunned when I read them. The Holocaust Denial talk-page and archives are filled with ppl who say the article is biased and doesn't explain what Holocaust denial is. I'm a different and unusual person (attributed to being a virgin so long and breech birth) . . . I'm always running into personality clashes and being called crazy. I made a mistake trying to add my 2-cents to two articles here. I'm not the first. The solution is NOT to ban/censor people who disagree but work with them. If U don't wanna work with me on those two pages, fine . . . someone else will come along and say the same things as I. I will continue to monitor those two pages . . . so far, I have enough material for a book about censorship, Orwellian thought-control & double-think at Wikipedia all archived on my computer. Do what U wish but if U unblock me . . . I'll probably be watching over 300 pages soon, the least I could do is revert vandalism. I was gonna leave on spring vacation today but the weekend in San Diego is rain so I'll leave Saturday or Sunday. "They" crucified Christ (the Logos, if he existed) for telling the truth . . . IMO, that's what U are doing to me by blocking me. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 13:18, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
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As you can see, when I first started out on Wikipedia, I ran into trouble editing controversial articles. I've been blocked for a couple of years but have been checking into Wikipedia daily, to keep informed about things that concern me. I learned a lot in the meantime about proper editing. I have no real intent to edit any articles but I may post information for edits on uncontroversial articles. The first edits I will do on my Talk page, I'd like to delete a few things I wrote about myself. At the time of my blocking I was very naive and unbalanced. In the past few years, pictures I've taken have been uploaded by other editors and used in two articles (that I know of), many other pics I've taken have been uploaded by others but not used. Thank You! (BTW: my User Page is still blocked, which is why I wrote this here.)
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Pages I'd like to edit other than my Talk Page: This picture is spamming the uploader's website, it has been flagged but nothing has been done, I'd like to replace the pic after deleting the website from the image. Raquel_Baranow ( talk) 04:46, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
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I would like to edit a couple of mentor's talk pages (or send them an email) to ask them to mentor me but I am blocked from editing their talk pages or sending editors/mentors an email. Thx! Raquel_Baranow ( talk) 22:05, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I've unblocked your account now that you've found a mentor. Please understand that you may be re-blocked if mentoring is ineffective. Good luck!--v/r - T P 18:22, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you're having to remove your signatures from articles. Are you putting ~~~~ at the bottom of article pages, or are you clicking the "signature and timestamp" button (found between the italics and hyperlink button at the top of the editing window) when editing an article? Unless you're using some sort of plug-in to edit, those would be how your signature would get into articles. Ian.thomson ( talk) 14:46, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
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Please don't repeat the past. Disruptive comments like the one you made at that AfD make one wonder whether your supervised release from an indef block is justified. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 01:17, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Raquel. I have removed a comment you made recently at Talk:Acharya S, because it could be interpreted as violating the policy at Wikipedia:No legal threats. I don't believe you were personally trying to make a legal threat, but you should avoid repeating off-wiki comments by others that could be interpreted as legal threats. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. -- RL0919 ( talk) 00:04, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I wanted to explain a bit over your edit in the article about CIA activities in Cambodia.
First, I wanted to explain on socialism and communism. You say that Khmer Rouge was communist, nowhere in the article does it stay it was socialist. It's completely right that Khmer Rouge was a communist party. But it's not called a communist regime. The article on communism defines communism as a classless, stateless and moneyless society. You agree that this is far from the Khmer Rouge's regime, don't you? The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is also a SOCIALIST state, desperat being ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party. As was the Union of SOCIALIST Soviet Republics, despite being ruled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Constitution of the Republic of Cuba also declares it a socialist state ruled by the Cuban Communist Party. These countries never considered themselves communist. They consider themselves socialist, with the plan of inventing communism one day. This kind of government is called Marxism-Leninism.
Also, I can't see any point with mentioning that it was "communist", other than to denigrate communism as an ideology (a violation of Wikipedia's strict NPOV policy). Vietnam was a socialist state ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, and Cambodia was a socialist state ruled by the communist FUNSK. Also, we can look at the "friends" and the "enemies" of the Khmer Rouge and PRK. Except China and Romania, hardly any socialist countries supported the Khmer Rouge. Aside from that, most of the Pol Pot's "friends" were Western countries, such as the United States and Great Britain. Even the Stalinist hardliner Enver Hoxha condemned Pol Pot and called him a fascist. The USSR and most socialist countries supported the PRK. The USSR was the only country in the Security Council to recognize the PRK. The US, UK, and China refused to recognize it, and instead continued to recognize a government-in-exile called the " Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea", led by Pol Pot. -- Te og kaker ( talk) 00:05, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestion at talk global warming, I already tweaked ver 3 with markup text so that the phrasing uses the phrasing in the supporting quote. You like? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 02:40, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks very much for investing energy and time contributing thoughts on efforts to draft a new first lead paragraph for Global warming. Please note I just posted ver 5 of my idea, and would welcome further pro/con criticism. I'm attempting to ping everyone who has taken time to speak up after past versions. If I overlooked anyone, please let me know. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 19:11, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
My primary reason for the edit you reverted there is that it was being added by a blocked editor, not particularly because of the content. It does seem better placed in a section other than "Changes in vegetation", though. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:45, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
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I don't know how to do "user talk" so...
It was actually a lesson to freshman high school boys/girls in how anyone can do anything on the internet and to not necessarily trust it. I was hoping it would last through the day tomorrow. It was benign and (imho) actually funny due to the penguin's actual range. But...
I guess not. Will you remove my future edits to the "South Sea" that say it is total BS? There is no such thing as an "ocean" which can be defined as a random area of water circumference around probably the largest land mass on our earth. And said water is contiguous with all other "actual" oceans and are merely a Southern extension of it? Are you some expert? Hmmm...
It is a historical term (which I respect) regarding ancient navigation. Otherwise it's... stupid to say.
Post that on the bs page under topic-category-subject-you-want
There is no such thing as a "southern sea" or "southern ocean". Don't believe everything you read... esp on the internet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimatrix ( talk • contribs) 06:36, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Oh and... I don't know your position on global warming but... we need more CO2. It's the sun. www.carbonstarvation.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimatrix ( talk • contribs) 06:52, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
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Have you read the article? These comments were made in the context of the clock incident: [9]. As such, the addition is warranted as it provide the necessary context for our readers. - Cwobeel (talk) 04:19, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
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In doing an edit to Diesel exhaust, I inadvertently changed something you had done. If it is still necessary -- you labeled the edit, something to do with chaining location of references -- could I bother you to do it again? My apologies for the wasted effort, but I cannot tell if the edit is still important, after my edit. Cheers. Le Prof 73.210.154.39 ( talk) 17:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I have to thank you for getting the license changed to CC on the Umpqua photographs on Flickr. Commons had drawn a blank on any decent photos of the campus. I will do this one tomorrow.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 20:57, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
I wasn't clear enough in my explanation; I'm sorry to have confused you. I didn't delete it because of a permissions problem with the photo: rather, the problem was with the content of the photo, a problem that would have qualified it for deletion even if you yourself had taken and freely-licensed the photo. Rather, the problem was that the photo is a derivative work of another copyrightable image, which itself isn't freely licensed — a major component was the sketch of a person, and the only way that this image could be acceptable is if the person responsible for drawing the sketch were to grant a free license for the sketch. Nyttend ( talk) 19:10, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello Raquel--I'm about to close an ANI discussion and came across this edit, containing the phrase "...is merely summarizing facts, something I have not read in any newspaper article." That, it seems to me, is pretty explicitly an endorsement of original research. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 21:53, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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.. do not get italics, they get quotes. And no, the "with" should not be capped. BMK ( talk) 03:07, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
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I have adjusted the x-axis label and the caption. I hope it is clearer now. I will leave the year zero on the left for now as this is the convention in the scientific literature (for now). Feel free to replace the old figure where you come across it. Thanks for the feedback! Fabrice.Lambert ( talk) 20:29, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
I removed the content. Not because it's a BLP, but because it's an encyclopedia article: this isn't a reliable secondary source, but merely a court document, a kind of document upon which no professional encyclopedia would rely as a source. Being an encyclopedia, we have no business relying on primary sources in writing articles on any subject: we need to rely on scholarly publications and other solidly vetted sources, not often-wrong news reports and other things without extensive opportunity for review and for chronological separation from their subjects, in deciding whether an idea is (1) likely to be true, and (2) a matter of any long-term significance. Nyttend ( talk) 03:14, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding your comment on Tesla page. Here's what 19th century newspapers wrote. Maybe you will be interested.
"Findings by Mr. Tesla in the electronic field are the following: He had found a way (and that is his secret) by which the electric waves can multiply in one second to a huge, almost infinite number, which was not possible up to now. On that finding many other consequences rest upon. For example, that electric waves are, what we call heat, light, electricity, magnetism. In another words – light, magnetism, heat and electricity are nothing else than electric waves in higher or lower number, upon which they depend and differently affect the man (burn him, kill him, or do nothing to him). Mr. Tesla had proven that mathematically correct. He hopes that with his findings he will be able to conduct the electric current where he pleases without any conductors. With his finding he is making electric currents and giving them different directions, and in their middle point he levitates heavy objects without any material support, etc. Generally speaking, the finding by Mr. Tesla will have huge practical use, not counting that a whole shift in science was made by it." 141.136.251.229 ( talk) 21:03, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
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Augustine was an amillennialist and his thought is more important than the recent protestant views which are based on false interpretations without any basis as the stupid idea that a RFID microchip implant is the mark. You should eliminate that kind of fundamentalist ideas unless you have a conflict of interest.
Agustine of Hippo by date has higher priority than all protestant ideas of the section "Mark of the Beast". There are thousands of ideas about the "mark" and I don't see how the XXI century ideas about the mark of the beast are more important and revelevant than the previous centuries ideas.
I don't know why you eliminated too the part of Revelation 20:4 where "the mark of beast" appears too. I see you do what you please. Rafaelosornio ( talk) 03:01, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
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Raquel Baranow ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Please unblock me with the Standard Offer. The mistake that let to this block was, before going to work, I stated my opinion on Jimbo’s talk page about the WP: NONAZIS essay. When I got back from work, a few editors blocked me without me being able to defend myself. I made a few very minor mistakes recently, please look at my talk page history regarding the recent mistakes I made. Please also note my contributions and uploads on Wikimedia this past year. My first edit when my editing privileges are restored will be adding a US Census graph I found to the article on Immigration to the United States. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 02:53, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
Decline reason:
For the standard offer, you need to convince people your previous behaviour won't reappear. Nothing here convinces me of that. I think there is a path for you to be unblocked, but you'll need to convince us of this. One possible way is to propose a WP:TOPICBAN. You are free to suggest other ways, though. Yamla ( talk) 12:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
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Soapboxing on Jimbo’s talk page was wrong, “disruptive,” the OP was asking for Jimbo’s opinion, I should have posted my comment/ opinion on the WP:NONAZIS essay page. (Wonder what German WP thinks of the essay?) Live, learn, evolve. Please unblock me per the Standard Offer. I would like to make this world a better place by sharing knowledge. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 05:07, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
In regards fringe topics, I am an expert. For many years I attended weekly meetings of the Saturday Morning Breakfast Club, which had far right wing,
John Birch Society speakers and many fringe characters and politicians, even former Arizona Governor
Evan Mecham. Ninety-five percent of the stuff I didn’t agree with, I was there for the entertainment and afterwards would go hiking. I also am a charter subscriber to
Michael Shermer’s
Skeptic Magazine. I met him several times including at a psychedelic drug conference in San Francisco where he was speaking, he had lunch with me and I ear-banged him about several conspiracies. As you can see, in the past 12-years, I hardly ever add content to conspiracy articles anymore, but if I do, I’m fully aware about reliable sources.
Raquel Baranow (
talk) 21:47, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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I have reviewed your contributions and your responses on this talk page. My conclusion is that you are a disruptive influence on the encyclopedia and have a tendency to demonstrate victim playing. This includes the numerous comments here that your block is "unfair", showing a lack of awareness of why the block was placed. The discussion below, where you seem to have a lack of awareness how posting something might be antisemetic, is extremely worrying and gives me no confidence you can edit in a constructive manner. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:48, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
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Ritchie333 declined my block even though I admitted that the poem I posted on Jimbo’s talk page was wrong, “disruptive”. He says I’m playing the victim because I thought the block was unfair. I struck those comments and previously admitted posting that shocking poem on Jimbo’s talk page was wrong. I hope an uninvolved* administrator unblocks me. Over many years, I have made many small contributions with photos and in the lede of the article on Communism, etc. Sometimes I do feel like a victim of cyber bullying on Wikipedia but understand that the “bullies” may be frustrated with having to deal with unruly vandals, like cops get frustrated with unruly criminals. This world needs radical lifestyle solutions or there will be mass death: peak oil and climate change. Another important graph I’m looking for shows how little progress we made toward renewable fuel. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 04:42, 3 November 2021 (UTC) :* OFF WIKI CANVASSING After Ritchie333 refused to unblock me, he went to a private area on Wikipediocracy, a thread entitled “Raquel Indeffed,” to tell all his friends. (A link to a screenshot of the conversation is available.) This is typical cyber bullying behavior: “ For example, 34 per cent of respondents in sub-Saharan Africa said they had been a victim of online bullying. Some 39 per cent said they knew about private online groups inside the school community where children share information about peers for the purpose of bullying.” Raquel Baranow ( talk) 13:16, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Procedural decline only. This block was superseded by a community ban. Yamla ( talk) 17:05, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
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You are free to continue donating photos to Wikimedia Commons. You are not blocked there. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 18:34, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
If I could, I would edit this table to include the four U.S. population projections (Low, Medium, High and No Immigrants) given in the reference I provided in 2019. Mom bought The Population Bomb when I was a teenager (1968), I read it. That's why I posted this picture on my user page, which was removed by User:Drmies because " this is not your personal website where you can post anti-semitic pictures".This picture may incite anti-Semitism but, it is also anti-immigrant, it also won Picture of the Year for Paintings in 2016, which is where I saw it and voted for it. I made many contributions to Wikimedia. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 04:50, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
But there are other problems: here you seem to come to the defense of a man who's made a career out of antisemitic comments, and yet you ask "well why don't they give us the antisemitic memes?". What you fail to understand is that Wikipedia is not an information dump where the reader should make up their own mind: the source cited for that statement about the memes is a reliable source, and that means we are under no obligation to cite or demand the primary evidence that the author of the article collected and the editors saw fit to print. That's the essence of what we do. And here you cite a fringe book, while adding "controversial", which can hardly be based on that very book--so you're editorializing. For an editor who's been here since 2005, that's really not easy to forgive.
I see no reason why this block should be lifted, and I doubt that an unblock request would be successful. What could be done, if Cullen328 agrees, is that you write up something and we post it on WP:AN for the community to decide, but most likely that will result in more criticism of a less diplomatic nature. Drmies ( talk) 14:41, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Drmies: The cartoon is not "obviously" antisemetic, it could be Anti-Judaism or Anti religion; it's also anti-immigration and led to the Immigration Act of 1924, which "especially affected Italians, Greeks and Eastern European Jews, as well as Poles and other Slavs." If the cartoon was Anti-Masonry, would that score no opprobrium from you?
National Socialism (Nazi Party) is a Political Party. The Wikipedia article for General George S Patton says, "Patton attracted controversy and repeatedly compared Nazis to Democrats and Republicans." So should Germans who were National Socialists not edit Wikipedia? Please discuss here.
You're selectively quoting me, full quote, which I stand by is
here, on Owen Benjamin's Talk Page: Not really fair in a BLP to say he has antisemitic conspiracy theories and memes without telling readers what those theories/ memes are. Even the sources cited don’t explain what those ideas are.
The contested section in the article added examples and I was satisfied, my comment wasn't in vain.
My "editoralizing" should be "easy to forgive," there are two reliable sources that say the location of the Temples in Jerusalem is controversial. That WP article says it's "contentious": "The exact location of the Temple is a contentious issue, as questioning the exact placement of the Temple is often associated with Temple denial."
One of the two RSs backs up exactly what I said at the Talk Page you cited, above, regarding Ernest L. Martin's "controversial" theory about the location of the Temple in Jerusalem.
RS 1:
Wailing at the wrong wall? Challenging accepted tradition, some researchers have proposed a controversial new perspective on Jerusalem’s ancient Temple Mount and the location of the temple.... Not without controversy, they have revolved their arguments around what they consider to be a misreading or dismissal of the literature by Josephus and others regarding the size and location of Fortress Antonia.
RS 2:
Antonia: The Fortress Jerusalem Forgot: A controversial theory challenges long-held tradition and scholarship on the Fortress of Antonia, with game-changing implications for the location of the Jerusalem temple of biblical times.... Few modern scholars had a better hands-on knowledge of Temple Mount topography than Dr. Ernest L Martin, who first published his unorthodox and controversial findings on the location of the Solomonic and Herodian temples in 1998.
For these reasons, and more to come, this block should be lifted. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 05:25, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
Saw these two Leptotes marina mating on my car antenna today!
Raquel Baranow ( talk) 05:08, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
Many of my pictures on Flickr were uploaded to Wikimedia by someone else.
I'll move this to my User Page when my block is removed; soon I'll appeal the block.
Raquel Baranow ( talk) 04:12, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Yamla, a few of my recent mistakes were technical: on one of them I should have said in the edit summary that I copy/ pasted the references from another article. Before doing that, I did check the sources and one of the sources looked really good, the website was very well done. Another edit I got alerted to on my talk page required a hyperlink to an article I didn’t know existed until later. My original sins from way back was Original Research and Unreliable Sources; I understand those concepts completely. I’ll agree to not post on Jimbo’s talk page anymore. I will watch my Ps & Qs: Note that I contributed pictures to that article. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 18:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Block review : Raquel Baranow. Thank you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:14, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Following the ANI discussion, you are now site-banned. There was no appeal term established in the discussion, but I doubt that any appeal earlier than 6 months from now would be taken seriously.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 17:03, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
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P.S. I am not allowed to edit or comment at the deletion discussion. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 16:03, 16 July 2023 (UTC)