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Why did you remove the human intelligence template from six articles today? You removed it from Spatial intelligence (psychology), Fertility and intelligence, Height and intelligence, Evolution of human intelligence, Religiosity and intelligence and Sex differences in human psychology. You didn't say why you removed it, and it looks relevant to those articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prmct ( talk • contribs) 00:54, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
I see you have removed my recent edit on the master race article for good faith and that I removed useful sourced content?
Lets break it down to what I removed and why:
"Slavic peoples who the Nazis didn't view as Aryan" - firstly this is not sourced and is not even relevant to the topic, secondly Slavs were Aryan and were included in the definition given by Albert Gorter see the Aryan certificate. This article is not about whether Slavs were Aryan or Celts were Aryan or Romances were Aryan but rather the constitution of the Germanic peoples being the Aryan master race.
Also, I emphasized on the proving Aryan descent because this is relevant to the topic and was required since April 1933 and is relevant to the article.
I also used text from other articles regarding the Nazi racial theorist Gunther and you removed this, why? He was one of the leading people in the Third Reich who promoted the Nordic-Germanic master race theory and divided the Germans into several different sub-races besides Nordic. Of course Gunther's work should be mentioned here since he influenced so many other so-called racial theorists from that era and was the very key component for the Nordic theory. In the section Aryanism and Nazism I again put in text regarding Rassenschande because this is what the laws unofficially termed the sexual relations between Aryans and non-Aryans yet you also removed this.
The kidnapping I also mentioned which is mentioned in other articles the Polish people (and other ethnic groups) did not just fit the Nordic profile but were not seen as say Polish, Ukrainian or anything else but people of German descent living them areas.
Why is my edit a problem when its fair and actually contributes to the article in a positive way with sourced content?-- Windows66 ( talk) 12:15, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
I have reverted it back to my last edit which is fully sourced and more accurate and not contradicted like the previous revision was.
A few good sources regarding Nazism and the Aryan race are:
The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution by Eric Ehrenreich.
"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945 by Diemut Majer.
Race and the Third Reich: Linguistics, Racial Anthropology and Genetics in the Dialectic of Volk by Christopher Hutton.
I enjoy reading a lot about the Third Reich and the prominent people of that era and have read quite a lot of books in regards to this article. I am aware that whilst some books state that Slavs and others (some even go to the extent of saying all non-Germans) were not Aryan this is incorrect and is not backed up by any official evidence, historical facts show that indeed Aryan in the Third Reich came to be known as any White European that was not of Jewish descent, this is backed up by the official definition given which stated all non-Jewish European peoples were Aryan.
There was no point in creating a new section on the master race article but rather on your personal talk page because it was you who reverted my edit and it seems nobody else seems to have a problem.
So what did you have a problem with to make you revert my edit and are you satisfied now at the current article as it stands or not?-- Windows66 ( talk) 14:34, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
So are you okay with the way the article is now?
I still don't understand why you reverted my edit for simply asking which sources Wikipedia users should read... people can use Google and find out for themselves surely.-- Windows66 ( talk) 15:44, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Nice touch up. The Transhumanist 00:36, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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http://occidentalascent.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/the-facts-that-need-to-be-explained/ On this website, there are arguments made from a race-realist standpoint. Can you find the problems in it and especially the criticisms of this research that have been published? I am very thankful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.49.46.54 ( talk) 08:03, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
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WeijiBaikeBianji (
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how I edit) 19:09, 13 January 2014 (UTC)I've noticed you've contributed much to the race/intelligence articles and thought these articles might interest you:
http://paa2009.princeton.edu/papers/90354
Using data from recent Current Population Surveys (CPS), this study compares third-and-higher generation with earlier generation Asian Americans and non-Hispanic whites in terms of socioeconomic characteristics and demographics. The findings suggest a “third-generation decline or flattening” for Asian American and white men as well as Asian American and white women. For each of these groups, the mean of years of schooling among the 2.5 and third generations is lower than among the first and second generations. This pattern is most pronounced among Asian Americans. As for wage determination, the generational differentials can be explained by educational attainment and other basic demographic variables. Overall, these results suggest that assimilation beyond the first generation immigrants no longer improves socioeconomic attainments as expected by traditional assimilation theory. Furthermore, in the case of Asian Americans, cultural assimilation across the generations may actually lower educational attainment and thereby reduce wages contrary to traditional assimilation theory.
...
It is widely noted that Asian immigrant parents have higher educational and socioeconomic expectations and motivations for their children than do non-Hispanic white parents (e.g., Goyette and Xie 1999; Kao 1995, 2004). Asian families also tend to invest more aggressively in financial, human, and within-family social capital than families from other racial groups (e.g., Sun 1998). Yet, protective effects of ethnic cultures and resources decline according to more acculturation into the mainstream U.S. society (e.g., Kao and Tienda 1995). As third-or-higher generation Asians become more “Americanized,” they tend to embrace the prevailing U.S. norm that as long as good efforts have been made based on one’s ability, the outcome would be acceptable even though one has not achieved the best performance or reached a higher level of
education (Chen and Stevenson 1989; Stevenson 1988).
Likewise...
http://www.ibtimes.com/asian-americans-increasingly-defying-stem-stereotype-246578
Shinagawa pointed out another interesting phenomenon; later generation (second, third, fourth, etc.) Asian Americans on average have markedly lower education and income compared to immigrant Asians. In 2007, 33 percent of PhDs conferred in the U.S. were to Asians. However, of that 33 percent, only 2 percent were Asians Americans born or raised in the U.S.
These trends are reflected in their TIMSS/PIRLS scores, which are often used by people like Charles Murray and Richard Lynn as proxies for IQ.
http://i39.tinypic.com/zob4p0.png
Note that native born Asian-Americans perform worse than native born Whites in every subject.
My goal here is not to put down Asian-Americans, but I've noticed that lots of modern racialists like to use Asians as a battering ram against other minorities. Yet, as the above evidence indicates, even "model minorities" who start from a much more advantageous position than the others can still succumb to negative cultural influences which significantly hurt their academic performance. This suggests that culture does, indeed, matter greatly, even on exams like the TIMSS which supposedly test for 'g'.
If you have any contacts with academics in the field, perhaps you'd like to pass this information along? James Flynn who wrote an entire book on Asian-Americans might be particularly interested. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.130.3.68 ( talk) 04:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear WeijiBaikeBianji,
A few years ago, about ten years now, I created a journal called The Anti Stigma Crusaders Journal which I publish every month and send to many academics and mental health professionals throughout the world. It is a journal that is about mental illness and mental health stigma.
I was a sufferer with mild bipolar II and married to a woman who suffers with bipolar 1 disorder. We both live in Australia and are active online helpers for other sufferers. IN a typical day I help, as a volunteer, up to 40 people who write from all countries of the world. I am helped by some psychologists to provide adequate help even though I am not qualified. But I have a honours degree in social anthropology and I have studied 2 years in a clinical psychology degree.
Some of my journals can be found at www.alfredozotti.com
I also have a book coming out soon http://alfredo123.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/my-lifes-journey-with-bipolar-ii-disorder/
And I am also the son of Luciano Zotti http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Zotti
I am telling you this to find out if there is a chance that I qualify as an important person who can be included on Wikipedia. I say this because if there is a chance this would help me with my endevours as a mental health helper who helps others as a volunteer. If I qualify perhaps you could help me to start a page. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alfredo Zotti ( talk • contribs) 22:35, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Why don't you consider Razib Khan to be a source for human genetic variation and race and genetics and other race articles? Is it because he is a proponent of biological races? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.95.171.228 ( talk) 20:39, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for you warm welcome, ho and by the way your cookies where delicious!
Thanks for the welcome! I have run into your nick some times when reading the talk pages. I hope I can contribute usefully, though I am bit reserved, as I am new here. Thanks for cookies! ;-) Puuska ( talk) 00:08, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi,
I noticed you joined the outlines project.
I have a question for you about your interest in outline development, if you don't mind...
What level of involvement are you interested in, that is, building a single outline really well (e.g., Outline of Buddhism), taking on a branch of knowledge (like Outline of geography, including all the country outlines), or taking outlines to the next level by building software (that applies natural language processing, text mining, and automatic taxonomy induction) to analyze Wikipedia and create outlines automatically?
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 23:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
This was my specific edit. Clearly explain which alterations did not conform to wiki policy rules.
Original version: There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined.[17][18][19][20][21][22] Nonetheless, some scholars argue that racial categories obviously correlate with biological traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree, and that certain genetic markers have varying frequencies among human populations, some of which correspond more or less to traditional racial groupings. For this reason there is no current consensus about whether racial categories can be considered to have significance for understanding human genetic variation.[23]
As noted, this statement is confusing and the part in bold is factually incorrect. My edit make the appropriate corrections. If you don't like my version, you can write your own. Whatever the case, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined must go.
Edited Version: While there is no consensus as to whether there are human biological races, it is agreed that gene frequencies vary among human populations, some of which correspond more or less to traditional racial groupings. For this reason there is no current consensus about whether traditional racial categories can be considered to have significance for understanding human genetic variation. There is a consensus that certain commonly used racial categories as used in certain countries, for example, Asians in the U.S., are socially constructed and cannot be biologically defined. Regarding these non-biologically definable racial categories, some scholars argue that they correlate with biologically conditioned traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree and therefore can be genetically informative.
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After your reversion of my edit, I checked the guidelines and found that you are correct, per the fourth bullet point of WP:LINKSTYLE. Thank you for calling my attention to this. That guideline suggests using {{ Efn}} appended to the quote instead. I think adding an explanatory footnote with a wikilink would help readers who are unfamiliar with the mythological reference " Procrustean bed". It might seem tangential to the subject of the article, but it's in the quote, and will either confuse the reader who doesn't know the reference, or force the reader to waste time searching for a definition. What do you think? -- Teratornis ( talk) 00:55, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Sorry I did not reply ,,,,did not notice the post till now with your second message. -- Moxy ( talk) 22:27, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your "thank you." Unfortunately, my attempt to introduce some more historicist language into the history section of the intelligence quotient article has produced what looks like the beginnings of an edit war. I have tried to explain clearly why this edit is necessary, on the user's talk page, but this seems to be going nowhere. Before I give up, I thought I would ask you to weigh in. Could you have a look at our discussion and tell me what you think? Thanks, JTBurman ( talk) 19:19, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Not arguing (I'm agnostic on the matter), but was wondering, why trim the external reference? —> "High IQ Societies and Tests Used for Admissions, Table 4. Intelligence Tests Used for Admission to the High-IQ Societies", Kevin Langdon (ed.), Berkeley, California: Polymath Systems Eurodog ( talk) 15:02, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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http://openpsych.net/ODP/ Is this above journal fit to use as sources in wiki articles? 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 04:43, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey Weiji, is there any mainstream academic agreement with the argument that increases in height in northern Europe is due to evolutionary selection? 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 21:56, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
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You think? I despair. I try at times to keep the worst out but it isn't easy. Poor sources, interpretation of and cherry picking from decent sources, use of out outdated material, you name it. Dougweller ( talk) 15:32, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Is this heavy use of Ron Scott appropriate? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 06:48, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
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Worthy of the greatest esteem for efforts and abilities in providing, ranking, and reviewing scientific citations and literature. Russot1 ( talk) 04:54, 19 May 2014 (UTC) |
I recently found a blog post that used several excellent mainstream sources and basically summarized them. I realized that some of the information was missing from articles on Wikipedia that have to do with behavior and Intelligence and such, I thought that we can basically use the sources found in the blog analysis to add in the relevant viewpoints that are missing. Can you look once over the blog and the articles within it to see if these edits will be appropriate? I am convinced that all the cited scientific sources are good (and the interpretations are too).
The blog post in question are: http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/more-behavioral-genetic-facts/ http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/the-son-becomes-the-father/
The sources I'd like to use are all in the above posts 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 03:50, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
I understand that good sources are required for claims on living persons, but the fact that researchers like Deary and Plomin are hereditarian is well accounted for. 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 13:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for catching my goof. I misread the article and thought that "SAT" still stood for something. My main objective was to push the past name information up into the lead paragraph, because that's what people may see in the tooltip preview if their browser supports it — the first couple of hundred bytes of text — and the lead for SAT was very short and vague. I've rearranged my edit to preserve the original meaning. — Quicksilver T @ 23:01, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
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I appreciate the comments and concerns. I cleaned up the article to make it more neutral. I checked the references and they are complete on creative pedagogy. If you have some other issues, please provide some discussion on the talk page. Thanks wxster1 Wxster1 ( talk) 06:31, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
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Like in title, is M.A. Woodley a good researcher on topic of race and intelligence as well as psychometrics to cite for our articles? 74.14.75.132 ( talk) 20:18, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia articles should be based mainly on reliable secondary sources. ... Primary sources are often difficult to use appropriately. While they can be both reliable and useful in certain situations, they must be used with caution in order to avoid original research. While specific facts may be taken from primary sources, secondary sources that present the same material are preferred. Large blocks of material based purely on primary sources should be avoided.
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All the best. 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 05:15, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the link to your citation collection. The work you do with intelligent youth and all your contributions to wikipedia sound really interesting, and I'm glad that you're on board with the RUL project as well. I look forward to meeting you later this week. :) static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 11:28, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Weiji, any chance you could get around to expanding the Criticism section for Richard Lynn soon? I know you're familiar with the literature, and there's much more that could be added. I'm tired of encountering people who insist Lynn is an impartial and sound scholar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.129.10.119 ( talk) 16:25, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me with that. (UT-- Kleinzahnfischotter ( talk) 14:37, 17 June 2014 (UTC)you put pictures uphow do 'Bold text'''Italic text'''Bold text'-- Kleinzahnfischotter ( talk) 14:40, 17 June 2014 (UTC)Italic text-- Kleinzahnfischotter ( talk) 14:40, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Can you update Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota#2014 with provisional details, I guess for Como and July 6, so that we can properly schedule this on the national WP:Wiknic page.?-- Pharos ( talk) 13:28, 17 June 2014
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I'll stop changing this, but honestly, I think it would be wiser to say 'southeast,' as some peoe take offense to the 'southern stereotypes' that exist in our country. Just because someone is from GA, for exams, doesn't mean that they are a 'southern' redneck or whatever. I'll stop changing the page, but those are my two cents. Also, why haven't you changed the caption of the photo? Look around. You shall see what I mean.
I reversed you comment again on basis of negative bias, and furthermore it says the same thing in the reviews. You furthermore havent debated the idea of adding it. DavidJac123 ( talk) 18:49, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Dear WeijiBaikeBianji, it was kind of you to regarble the sentence because the previous word appears to you to be sourced. However, the sentence does not make sense "Different clines align around the different centers, resulting in more complex variations than those observed comparing continental groups." neither in the context of the header nor as a stand-alone statement. Maybe you'd be kind enough to translate it into English, and explain what continental groups are and how they relate to the different centers if you understand what the sourced sentence is trying to tell the reader. Barefact ( talk) 19:14, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey Weiji, I have had a chance to look at your collections of resources related to race, intelligence, and genetics. I am leaving this message as a token of appreciation and as thanks for the good work you are doing in your research. It seems that the edits I had made earlier and ones I planned were problematic and based on a myopic reading of otherwise excellent mainstream sources. In the future I will make sure to use your excellent resources if I think I should make an edit on articles related to contentious topics of race and human intelligence, or if you don't mind, run my edits through you or other editors who frequently edit such articles. Once again, thanks. 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 02:23, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
I reported DavidJac and our numerous IP friends here. Let us see what comes of it. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 06:59, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Hey User:WeijiBaikeBianji: I was very excited to discover Wikipedia:GLAM/Rutgers and thought I would point you to Our new Library Interns resource page. If you have access to a student hire/intern, it would be great to get them involved in it! Sadads ( talk) 15:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
You might correctly say that mental retardation is supposed to prevent carrying out the death penalty, and should prevent that, but, as an example, the state of Texas executed a mentally retarded man in 2012. See http://rt.com/usa/texas-executed-wilson-court-177/ The statement in the Wikipedia article Flynn Effect currently says that "... in the United States a diagnosis of intellectual disability prevents execution." But as we see from the Texas case, it did not actually prevent execution. Therefore my edit ought to be restored. Dratman ( talk) 20:08, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
My internet does have an article on the psycholinguistics of grammatical gender as a start in that area for the site, though in spite of analyzing millions of data bites, the author does not seem to have identified hu'man' as a noun having a gender base!! Or did I hear that incorrectly? Loved the institute's article and analysis from a thesis in the Netherlands. I thought that article would welcome researchers in other fields to speak and communicate.
I'll add the facilitated communication article as a start in that area, too. Hope you enjoyed the holidays. In our fields, "speech communication" (education) is responsible academically to reach psycholinguistics, as are the specialty colleges (e.g., Gallaudet). 2604:6000:A441:BB01:E9DE:9377:D058:91F5 ( talk) 18:13, 14 July 2014 (UTC)JARacino 2604:6000:A441:BB01:E9DE:9377:D058:91F5 ( talk) 18:13, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
In case you hadn't seen it, you can vote on the Flood control in the Netherlands nomination for vital article at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Expanded#Add Flood control in the Netherlands. – Editør ( talk) 13:16, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hey WeijiBaikeBianji, please make sure to follow the instructions in the email I sent nearly 2 weeks ago to ensure that you can get WP:RSUK access, Sadads ( talk) 16:53, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
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I really don't think your approach of adding long citations of policy and references to vaguely or tangentially related publications is helpful. I appreciate that you are trying to help with the work of creating neutral and informative articles, but really that is better done by actually using the articles in writing the article content. Everyone has access to those articles if they want to. The problem is that some editors are not interested in those articles and get their information from other less useful sources. They are going to keep doing that regardless of how many links you spread around wikipedias talkpages to your favorite publications. Also remember that the example of editing you set can be followed by other editors. And having hereditarian editors flooding talkpages with links to their favorites blogs or other sources is not going to help anyone. I really wish you could start helping out by writing content. Addition: The two articles that you linked at the R&I article could not be used in writing the article at all, because they make no mention of either race nor Intelligence. And they are not referred to by any reliable secondary sources about R&I. They simply are not eligible sources for this article. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 17:02, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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This was unneeded. Travis Daily ( talk, edits) 02:18, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article IQ classification you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ulflund -- Ulflund ( talk) 07:21, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
I posted a suggestion to your User talk:WeijiBaikeBianji/IntelligenceCitations page over a month ago regarding Intelligence and Giftedness by Miles D. Storfer, Ph.D., but cannot see that you have retrieved it. Are you still soliciting suggestions, or do you have enough ideas already? Megapod ( talk) 01:06, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
The article IQ classification you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:IQ classification for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ulflund -- Ulflund ( talk) 03:23, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Weiji, have you read the above book? If so, would you say that it is a useful citation for behavior genetic related articles? Should we create an article for it? Are there any reviews that can be included in such an article? Wajajad ( talk) 01:46, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
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Why did you remove the human intelligence template from six articles today? You removed it from Spatial intelligence (psychology), Fertility and intelligence, Height and intelligence, Evolution of human intelligence, Religiosity and intelligence and Sex differences in human psychology. You didn't say why you removed it, and it looks relevant to those articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prmct ( talk • contribs) 00:54, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
I see you have removed my recent edit on the master race article for good faith and that I removed useful sourced content?
Lets break it down to what I removed and why:
"Slavic peoples who the Nazis didn't view as Aryan" - firstly this is not sourced and is not even relevant to the topic, secondly Slavs were Aryan and were included in the definition given by Albert Gorter see the Aryan certificate. This article is not about whether Slavs were Aryan or Celts were Aryan or Romances were Aryan but rather the constitution of the Germanic peoples being the Aryan master race.
Also, I emphasized on the proving Aryan descent because this is relevant to the topic and was required since April 1933 and is relevant to the article.
I also used text from other articles regarding the Nazi racial theorist Gunther and you removed this, why? He was one of the leading people in the Third Reich who promoted the Nordic-Germanic master race theory and divided the Germans into several different sub-races besides Nordic. Of course Gunther's work should be mentioned here since he influenced so many other so-called racial theorists from that era and was the very key component for the Nordic theory. In the section Aryanism and Nazism I again put in text regarding Rassenschande because this is what the laws unofficially termed the sexual relations between Aryans and non-Aryans yet you also removed this.
The kidnapping I also mentioned which is mentioned in other articles the Polish people (and other ethnic groups) did not just fit the Nordic profile but were not seen as say Polish, Ukrainian or anything else but people of German descent living them areas.
Why is my edit a problem when its fair and actually contributes to the article in a positive way with sourced content?-- Windows66 ( talk) 12:15, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
I have reverted it back to my last edit which is fully sourced and more accurate and not contradicted like the previous revision was.
A few good sources regarding Nazism and the Aryan race are:
The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution by Eric Ehrenreich.
"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945 by Diemut Majer.
Race and the Third Reich: Linguistics, Racial Anthropology and Genetics in the Dialectic of Volk by Christopher Hutton.
I enjoy reading a lot about the Third Reich and the prominent people of that era and have read quite a lot of books in regards to this article. I am aware that whilst some books state that Slavs and others (some even go to the extent of saying all non-Germans) were not Aryan this is incorrect and is not backed up by any official evidence, historical facts show that indeed Aryan in the Third Reich came to be known as any White European that was not of Jewish descent, this is backed up by the official definition given which stated all non-Jewish European peoples were Aryan.
There was no point in creating a new section on the master race article but rather on your personal talk page because it was you who reverted my edit and it seems nobody else seems to have a problem.
So what did you have a problem with to make you revert my edit and are you satisfied now at the current article as it stands or not?-- Windows66 ( talk) 14:34, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
So are you okay with the way the article is now?
I still don't understand why you reverted my edit for simply asking which sources Wikipedia users should read... people can use Google and find out for themselves surely.-- Windows66 ( talk) 15:44, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Nice touch up. The Transhumanist 00:36, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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http://occidentalascent.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/the-facts-that-need-to-be-explained/ On this website, there are arguments made from a race-realist standpoint. Can you find the problems in it and especially the criticisms of this research that have been published? I am very thankful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.49.46.54 ( talk) 08:03, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
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"Perspectives on Human Population Structure at the Cusp of the Sequencing Era" (PDF). Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. 12: 245–274.
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WeijiBaikeBianji (
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how I edit) 19:09, 13 January 2014 (UTC)I've noticed you've contributed much to the race/intelligence articles and thought these articles might interest you:
http://paa2009.princeton.edu/papers/90354
Using data from recent Current Population Surveys (CPS), this study compares third-and-higher generation with earlier generation Asian Americans and non-Hispanic whites in terms of socioeconomic characteristics and demographics. The findings suggest a “third-generation decline or flattening” for Asian American and white men as well as Asian American and white women. For each of these groups, the mean of years of schooling among the 2.5 and third generations is lower than among the first and second generations. This pattern is most pronounced among Asian Americans. As for wage determination, the generational differentials can be explained by educational attainment and other basic demographic variables. Overall, these results suggest that assimilation beyond the first generation immigrants no longer improves socioeconomic attainments as expected by traditional assimilation theory. Furthermore, in the case of Asian Americans, cultural assimilation across the generations may actually lower educational attainment and thereby reduce wages contrary to traditional assimilation theory.
...
It is widely noted that Asian immigrant parents have higher educational and socioeconomic expectations and motivations for their children than do non-Hispanic white parents (e.g., Goyette and Xie 1999; Kao 1995, 2004). Asian families also tend to invest more aggressively in financial, human, and within-family social capital than families from other racial groups (e.g., Sun 1998). Yet, protective effects of ethnic cultures and resources decline according to more acculturation into the mainstream U.S. society (e.g., Kao and Tienda 1995). As third-or-higher generation Asians become more “Americanized,” they tend to embrace the prevailing U.S. norm that as long as good efforts have been made based on one’s ability, the outcome would be acceptable even though one has not achieved the best performance or reached a higher level of
education (Chen and Stevenson 1989; Stevenson 1988).
Likewise...
http://www.ibtimes.com/asian-americans-increasingly-defying-stem-stereotype-246578
Shinagawa pointed out another interesting phenomenon; later generation (second, third, fourth, etc.) Asian Americans on average have markedly lower education and income compared to immigrant Asians. In 2007, 33 percent of PhDs conferred in the U.S. were to Asians. However, of that 33 percent, only 2 percent were Asians Americans born or raised in the U.S.
These trends are reflected in their TIMSS/PIRLS scores, which are often used by people like Charles Murray and Richard Lynn as proxies for IQ.
http://i39.tinypic.com/zob4p0.png
Note that native born Asian-Americans perform worse than native born Whites in every subject.
My goal here is not to put down Asian-Americans, but I've noticed that lots of modern racialists like to use Asians as a battering ram against other minorities. Yet, as the above evidence indicates, even "model minorities" who start from a much more advantageous position than the others can still succumb to negative cultural influences which significantly hurt their academic performance. This suggests that culture does, indeed, matter greatly, even on exams like the TIMSS which supposedly test for 'g'.
If you have any contacts with academics in the field, perhaps you'd like to pass this information along? James Flynn who wrote an entire book on Asian-Americans might be particularly interested. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.130.3.68 ( talk) 04:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear WeijiBaikeBianji,
A few years ago, about ten years now, I created a journal called The Anti Stigma Crusaders Journal which I publish every month and send to many academics and mental health professionals throughout the world. It is a journal that is about mental illness and mental health stigma.
I was a sufferer with mild bipolar II and married to a woman who suffers with bipolar 1 disorder. We both live in Australia and are active online helpers for other sufferers. IN a typical day I help, as a volunteer, up to 40 people who write from all countries of the world. I am helped by some psychologists to provide adequate help even though I am not qualified. But I have a honours degree in social anthropology and I have studied 2 years in a clinical psychology degree.
Some of my journals can be found at www.alfredozotti.com
I also have a book coming out soon http://alfredo123.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/my-lifes-journey-with-bipolar-ii-disorder/
And I am also the son of Luciano Zotti http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Zotti
I am telling you this to find out if there is a chance that I qualify as an important person who can be included on Wikipedia. I say this because if there is a chance this would help me with my endevours as a mental health helper who helps others as a volunteer. If I qualify perhaps you could help me to start a page. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alfredo Zotti ( talk • contribs) 22:35, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Why don't you consider Razib Khan to be a source for human genetic variation and race and genetics and other race articles? Is it because he is a proponent of biological races? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.95.171.228 ( talk) 20:39, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for you warm welcome, ho and by the way your cookies where delicious!
Thanks for the welcome! I have run into your nick some times when reading the talk pages. I hope I can contribute usefully, though I am bit reserved, as I am new here. Thanks for cookies! ;-) Puuska ( talk) 00:08, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi,
I noticed you joined the outlines project.
I have a question for you about your interest in outline development, if you don't mind...
What level of involvement are you interested in, that is, building a single outline really well (e.g., Outline of Buddhism), taking on a branch of knowledge (like Outline of geography, including all the country outlines), or taking outlines to the next level by building software (that applies natural language processing, text mining, and automatic taxonomy induction) to analyze Wikipedia and create outlines automatically?
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 23:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
This was my specific edit. Clearly explain which alterations did not conform to wiki policy rules.
Original version: There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined.[17][18][19][20][21][22] Nonetheless, some scholars argue that racial categories obviously correlate with biological traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree, and that certain genetic markers have varying frequencies among human populations, some of which correspond more or less to traditional racial groupings. For this reason there is no current consensus about whether racial categories can be considered to have significance for understanding human genetic variation.[23]
As noted, this statement is confusing and the part in bold is factually incorrect. My edit make the appropriate corrections. If you don't like my version, you can write your own. Whatever the case, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined must go.
Edited Version: While there is no consensus as to whether there are human biological races, it is agreed that gene frequencies vary among human populations, some of which correspond more or less to traditional racial groupings. For this reason there is no current consensus about whether traditional racial categories can be considered to have significance for understanding human genetic variation. There is a consensus that certain commonly used racial categories as used in certain countries, for example, Asians in the U.S., are socially constructed and cannot be biologically defined. Regarding these non-biologically definable racial categories, some scholars argue that they correlate with biologically conditioned traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree and therefore can be genetically informative.
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After your reversion of my edit, I checked the guidelines and found that you are correct, per the fourth bullet point of WP:LINKSTYLE. Thank you for calling my attention to this. That guideline suggests using {{ Efn}} appended to the quote instead. I think adding an explanatory footnote with a wikilink would help readers who are unfamiliar with the mythological reference " Procrustean bed". It might seem tangential to the subject of the article, but it's in the quote, and will either confuse the reader who doesn't know the reference, or force the reader to waste time searching for a definition. What do you think? -- Teratornis ( talk) 00:55, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Sorry I did not reply ,,,,did not notice the post till now with your second message. -- Moxy ( talk) 22:27, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your "thank you." Unfortunately, my attempt to introduce some more historicist language into the history section of the intelligence quotient article has produced what looks like the beginnings of an edit war. I have tried to explain clearly why this edit is necessary, on the user's talk page, but this seems to be going nowhere. Before I give up, I thought I would ask you to weigh in. Could you have a look at our discussion and tell me what you think? Thanks, JTBurman ( talk) 19:19, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Not arguing (I'm agnostic on the matter), but was wondering, why trim the external reference? —> "High IQ Societies and Tests Used for Admissions, Table 4. Intelligence Tests Used for Admission to the High-IQ Societies", Kevin Langdon (ed.), Berkeley, California: Polymath Systems Eurodog ( talk) 15:02, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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http://openpsych.net/ODP/ Is this above journal fit to use as sources in wiki articles? 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 04:43, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey Weiji, is there any mainstream academic agreement with the argument that increases in height in northern Europe is due to evolutionary selection? 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 21:56, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
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You think? I despair. I try at times to keep the worst out but it isn't easy. Poor sources, interpretation of and cherry picking from decent sources, use of out outdated material, you name it. Dougweller ( talk) 15:32, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Is this heavy use of Ron Scott appropriate? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 06:48, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks - your photos are incredible! ExpertEditor25 ( talk) 05:45, 16 May 2014 (UTC) |
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Worthy of the greatest esteem for efforts and abilities in providing, ranking, and reviewing scientific citations and literature. Russot1 ( talk) 04:54, 19 May 2014 (UTC) |
I recently found a blog post that used several excellent mainstream sources and basically summarized them. I realized that some of the information was missing from articles on Wikipedia that have to do with behavior and Intelligence and such, I thought that we can basically use the sources found in the blog analysis to add in the relevant viewpoints that are missing. Can you look once over the blog and the articles within it to see if these edits will be appropriate? I am convinced that all the cited scientific sources are good (and the interpretations are too).
The blog post in question are: http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/more-behavioral-genetic-facts/ http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/the-son-becomes-the-father/
The sources I'd like to use are all in the above posts 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 03:50, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
I understand that good sources are required for claims on living persons, but the fact that researchers like Deary and Plomin are hereditarian is well accounted for. 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 13:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for catching my goof. I misread the article and thought that "SAT" still stood for something. My main objective was to push the past name information up into the lead paragraph, because that's what people may see in the tooltip preview if their browser supports it — the first couple of hundred bytes of text — and the lead for SAT was very short and vague. I've rearranged my edit to preserve the original meaning. — Quicksilver T @ 23:01, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
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I appreciate the comments and concerns. I cleaned up the article to make it more neutral. I checked the references and they are complete on creative pedagogy. If you have some other issues, please provide some discussion on the talk page. Thanks wxster1 Wxster1 ( talk) 06:31, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
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Like in title, is M.A. Woodley a good researcher on topic of race and intelligence as well as psychometrics to cite for our articles? 74.14.75.132 ( talk) 20:18, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia articles should be based mainly on reliable secondary sources. ... Primary sources are often difficult to use appropriately. While they can be both reliable and useful in certain situations, they must be used with caution in order to avoid original research. While specific facts may be taken from primary sources, secondary sources that present the same material are preferred. Large blocks of material based purely on primary sources should be avoided.
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All the best. 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 05:15, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the link to your citation collection. The work you do with intelligent youth and all your contributions to wikipedia sound really interesting, and I'm glad that you're on board with the RUL project as well. I look forward to meeting you later this week. :) static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 11:28, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Weiji, any chance you could get around to expanding the Criticism section for Richard Lynn soon? I know you're familiar with the literature, and there's much more that could be added. I'm tired of encountering people who insist Lynn is an impartial and sound scholar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.129.10.119 ( talk) 16:25, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me with that. (UT-- Kleinzahnfischotter ( talk) 14:37, 17 June 2014 (UTC)you put pictures uphow do 'Bold text'''Italic text'''Bold text'-- Kleinzahnfischotter ( talk) 14:40, 17 June 2014 (UTC)Italic text-- Kleinzahnfischotter ( talk) 14:40, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Can you update Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota#2014 with provisional details, I guess for Como and July 6, so that we can properly schedule this on the national WP:Wiknic page.?-- Pharos ( talk) 13:28, 17 June 2014
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I'll stop changing this, but honestly, I think it would be wiser to say 'southeast,' as some peoe take offense to the 'southern stereotypes' that exist in our country. Just because someone is from GA, for exams, doesn't mean that they are a 'southern' redneck or whatever. I'll stop changing the page, but those are my two cents. Also, why haven't you changed the caption of the photo? Look around. You shall see what I mean.
I reversed you comment again on basis of negative bias, and furthermore it says the same thing in the reviews. You furthermore havent debated the idea of adding it. DavidJac123 ( talk) 18:49, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Dear WeijiBaikeBianji, it was kind of you to regarble the sentence because the previous word appears to you to be sourced. However, the sentence does not make sense "Different clines align around the different centers, resulting in more complex variations than those observed comparing continental groups." neither in the context of the header nor as a stand-alone statement. Maybe you'd be kind enough to translate it into English, and explain what continental groups are and how they relate to the different centers if you understand what the sourced sentence is trying to tell the reader. Barefact ( talk) 19:14, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey Weiji, I have had a chance to look at your collections of resources related to race, intelligence, and genetics. I am leaving this message as a token of appreciation and as thanks for the good work you are doing in your research. It seems that the edits I had made earlier and ones I planned were problematic and based on a myopic reading of otherwise excellent mainstream sources. In the future I will make sure to use your excellent resources if I think I should make an edit on articles related to contentious topics of race and human intelligence, or if you don't mind, run my edits through you or other editors who frequently edit such articles. Once again, thanks. 74.14.73.37 ( talk) 02:23, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
I reported DavidJac and our numerous IP friends here. Let us see what comes of it. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 06:59, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Hey User:WeijiBaikeBianji: I was very excited to discover Wikipedia:GLAM/Rutgers and thought I would point you to Our new Library Interns resource page. If you have access to a student hire/intern, it would be great to get them involved in it! Sadads ( talk) 15:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
You might correctly say that mental retardation is supposed to prevent carrying out the death penalty, and should prevent that, but, as an example, the state of Texas executed a mentally retarded man in 2012. See http://rt.com/usa/texas-executed-wilson-court-177/ The statement in the Wikipedia article Flynn Effect currently says that "... in the United States a diagnosis of intellectual disability prevents execution." But as we see from the Texas case, it did not actually prevent execution. Therefore my edit ought to be restored. Dratman ( talk) 20:08, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
My internet does have an article on the psycholinguistics of grammatical gender as a start in that area for the site, though in spite of analyzing millions of data bites, the author does not seem to have identified hu'man' as a noun having a gender base!! Or did I hear that incorrectly? Loved the institute's article and analysis from a thesis in the Netherlands. I thought that article would welcome researchers in other fields to speak and communicate.
I'll add the facilitated communication article as a start in that area, too. Hope you enjoyed the holidays. In our fields, "speech communication" (education) is responsible academically to reach psycholinguistics, as are the specialty colleges (e.g., Gallaudet). 2604:6000:A441:BB01:E9DE:9377:D058:91F5 ( talk) 18:13, 14 July 2014 (UTC)JARacino 2604:6000:A441:BB01:E9DE:9377:D058:91F5 ( talk) 18:13, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
In case you hadn't seen it, you can vote on the Flood control in the Netherlands nomination for vital article at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Expanded#Add Flood control in the Netherlands. – Editør ( talk) 13:16, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hey WeijiBaikeBianji, please make sure to follow the instructions in the email I sent nearly 2 weeks ago to ensure that you can get WP:RSUK access, Sadads ( talk) 16:53, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
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I proposed adding 大禹, 刘邦, 曹操 and 宋太祖 to the list – take a look if you're interested. Cobblet ( talk) 09:35, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
I really don't think your approach of adding long citations of policy and references to vaguely or tangentially related publications is helpful. I appreciate that you are trying to help with the work of creating neutral and informative articles, but really that is better done by actually using the articles in writing the article content. Everyone has access to those articles if they want to. The problem is that some editors are not interested in those articles and get their information from other less useful sources. They are going to keep doing that regardless of how many links you spread around wikipedias talkpages to your favorite publications. Also remember that the example of editing you set can be followed by other editors. And having hereditarian editors flooding talkpages with links to their favorites blogs or other sources is not going to help anyone. I really wish you could start helping out by writing content. Addition: The two articles that you linked at the R&I article could not be used in writing the article at all, because they make no mention of either race nor Intelligence. And they are not referred to by any reliable secondary sources about R&I. They simply are not eligible sources for this article. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 17:02, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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This was unneeded. Travis Daily ( talk, edits) 02:18, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
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I posted a suggestion to your User talk:WeijiBaikeBianji/IntelligenceCitations page over a month ago regarding Intelligence and Giftedness by Miles D. Storfer, Ph.D., but cannot see that you have retrieved it. Are you still soliciting suggestions, or do you have enough ideas already? Megapod ( talk) 01:06, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
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Weiji, have you read the above book? If so, would you say that it is a useful citation for behavior genetic related articles? Should we create an article for it? Are there any reviews that can be included in such an article? Wajajad ( talk) 01:46, 9 October 2014 (UTC)