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That was a great story. I am glad you posted it. I will tell it in the future, always giving you credit :-) Dbrodbeck ( talk) 22:14, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
can you post a link here so I can read it? please? Agent of the nine ( talk) 16:25, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm guessing something to do with antibiotics and placebos? lol it's okay one can only find so much treasure. Agent of the nine ( talk) 13:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
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Interesting, Steve. There are two issues here, I only addressed adding to the original recording, e.g. in a conference room with high noise, and I said it would be hard to add to it due to not having a clear patch of room noise from then. So you're saying it's trivial to add in extra audio into a low-quality recording of people's conversations? (to extract room noise and then splice it in without any noticeable clips or change that makes it obvious the person was added in post-production?) For my response I assumed the person would just be willing to read their lines - can they then be dubbed in easily into a high-noise actual recording of an actual conversatoin, with constantly varying background noise?
Because in this case the background noise might be really obvious as well (for example if anything else is happening), and repeating a section, or cutting abruptly or anything else, might be really obvious. . . .
I ask here because the person used 'impersonation' and I think that's wrong on its face. (It's often a crime.) On balance I would say the OP's intentions are not pure, but in any case I would like to 'keep them honest' by not posting details about how to do it. 212.96.61.236 ( talk) 16:06, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
I get the pixture that when you said I should of said "intents and purposes" you thought I didn't know what I was doing. I come acrost that a lot. Merry Christmas. μηδείς ( talk) 19:30, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Steve, I think your response here [1] went to the wrong thread. Cheers, SemanticMantis ( talk) 16:27, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Steve, reading through the discussions on the talk page again, I have a simple proposal that I'd like your feedback on before I shop it to the whole group. It's very simple: For a trial period (1 month?), we agree to not remove or hat any questions for reasons of seeking medical/legal advice (and perhaps extend to include requests for opinion). Rather than a free-for-all, we first respond with boilerplate or a template, something along the lines of this:
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At that point, we can remove any responses that diagnose, proscribe, treat any illness or legal situation, but allow links to RS. Perhaps even demand that any responses include references, or risk removal. Would that seem ok to you? The thing is, we really don't get that many medical legal questions, and I like how this puts us in the position to police ourselves as respondents, rather than posters. As I see it, this proposal is consistent with our guidelines, and it might forestall some debates, because hopefully the use of a template will warn all our regulars (and irregulars) to be on their best behavior. On the upside, we can then provide useful information, such as links to other people's opinion pieces, links to WP pages that are about medical topics, peer-reviewed literature, etc. So, any thoughts? Would you support such an experiment? Thanks, SemanticMantis ( talk) 15:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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That was a great story. I am glad you posted it. I will tell it in the future, always giving you credit :-) Dbrodbeck ( talk) 22:14, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
can you post a link here so I can read it? please? Agent of the nine ( talk) 16:25, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm guessing something to do with antibiotics and placebos? lol it's okay one can only find so much treasure. Agent of the nine ( talk) 13:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
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Interesting, Steve. There are two issues here, I only addressed adding to the original recording, e.g. in a conference room with high noise, and I said it would be hard to add to it due to not having a clear patch of room noise from then. So you're saying it's trivial to add in extra audio into a low-quality recording of people's conversations? (to extract room noise and then splice it in without any noticeable clips or change that makes it obvious the person was added in post-production?) For my response I assumed the person would just be willing to read their lines - can they then be dubbed in easily into a high-noise actual recording of an actual conversatoin, with constantly varying background noise?
Because in this case the background noise might be really obvious as well (for example if anything else is happening), and repeating a section, or cutting abruptly or anything else, might be really obvious. . . .
I ask here because the person used 'impersonation' and I think that's wrong on its face. (It's often a crime.) On balance I would say the OP's intentions are not pure, but in any case I would like to 'keep them honest' by not posting details about how to do it. 212.96.61.236 ( talk) 16:06, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
I get the pixture that when you said I should of said "intents and purposes" you thought I didn't know what I was doing. I come acrost that a lot. Merry Christmas. μηδείς ( talk) 19:30, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Steve, I think your response here [1] went to the wrong thread. Cheers, SemanticMantis ( talk) 16:27, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Steve, reading through the discussions on the talk page again, I have a simple proposal that I'd like your feedback on before I shop it to the whole group. It's very simple: For a trial period (1 month?), we agree to not remove or hat any questions for reasons of seeking medical/legal advice (and perhaps extend to include requests for opinion). Rather than a free-for-all, we first respond with boilerplate or a template, something along the lines of this:
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At that point, we can remove any responses that diagnose, proscribe, treat any illness or legal situation, but allow links to RS. Perhaps even demand that any responses include references, or risk removal. Would that seem ok to you? The thing is, we really don't get that many medical legal questions, and I like how this puts us in the position to police ourselves as respondents, rather than posters. As I see it, this proposal is consistent with our guidelines, and it might forestall some debates, because hopefully the use of a template will warn all our regulars (and irregulars) to be on their best behavior. On the upside, we can then provide useful information, such as links to other people's opinion pieces, links to WP pages that are about medical topics, peer-reviewed literature, etc. So, any thoughts? Would you support such an experiment? Thanks, SemanticMantis ( talk) 15:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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Actually, I have a confession to make. There was a time when I had formed a less than positive impression of you. But that time seems a very long time ago now, and these days I find myself in agreement with most things you post. A paragon of sensibility, if I may so so. That's me. You're OK too. Carry on. :) -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 20:40, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Steve, thanks for your recent comments. Right now, I'm actually more frustrated with the long-term semi-protection than the unilateral removal of troll/banned user posts. At least without the semi-protection, some IPs got through, now very few will jump through the necessary hoops. Do you think the issue of the duration of semi-protection might be successfully clarified at AN and/or Wikipedia_talk:Protection_policy as suggested recently by Modocc? I know there must be a few others who see things our way, if you're interested, we could perhaps recruit some helpers and sandbox something together. Maybe the duration isn't the right angle, but the only other thing I can think of is to get enough admins to revert the one who keeps semi-protecting so that we force the ball into admin court. I'm really just floundering for any way to keep the ref desks open, as I think you agree they should be. SemanticMantis ( talk) 17:01, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Steve, hi. I'm sorry that things have become rather heated over on WT:RD, and I'm quite happy to discuss things rationally. If you feel that the Perth IP's posting is acceptable because it's interesting, or not harmful, or similarly productive, whether or not it's from a banned user, you're quite entitled under WP:BANREVERT to restore it, if you "take full responsibility" for it (whatever that may mean), and we just have a disagreement on the implementation of banning policy that probably doesn't need further discussion - I would not encourage anyone to restore postings from banned users, and I might perhaps advise you to look at the Google results for "perspective sight" before wholeheartedly accepting the IP's anecdote as factual, but I think this particular incident can be closed. However, if you accept the principle that banned users should not be allowed to edit (and, if you don't, that's fine), but feel that I am being too sensitive when it comes specifically to WickWack, we can look at the evidence and see if things can be improved. If that's what you'd like to do, establishing an approximate baseline for my first criterion, by seeing how many acceptable posts we get from Telstra, might be a useful start. Rather than speculating, looking at the actual data is always a more productive approach. Tevildo ( talk) 19:26, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
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I hope this doesn't count as canvassing, but as a long time respected RefDesk contributor, you might find this discussion of interest : /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#RfC:_Should_the_Reference_Desks_be_closed.3F
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