User talk:MasterTriangle12/Archive 1

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Heya MasterTriangle12. I might suggest removing the last sentence from your recent edit on RSN (diff). It is okay and understandable if you feel frustrated with an editing conflict, but it is important (especially on a noticeboard not about edit conflicts) to focus on content/policy and not on other editors. Thanks! Jlevi (talk) 22:14, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Ah, yeah that was a little vent-ish. I've been finding it quite difficult to keep giving the benefit of the doubt to some of the editorial claims on that page, but it's been nice to finally see some editors come in who are more familiar with the processes for resolving these disputes since this is the only page where I have had any experience with editorial conflict. Cheers for bringing that source to the RS noticeboard by the way. Do you think the claims of UNDUE also need attention? Or is that moot by this point? MasterTriangle12 (talk) 02:13, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

I think the UNDUE claims are probably going to come up again, but they haven't yet, and preempting them is probably not a great use of time. My suggestion is to do good editing: search for quality sources, see where they agree with each other, and write a strong section based on the common themes of those articles and fully supported by their content. (Boring suggestion I know, but that really is the best way to handle things if you feel like there is an edit conflict.) I think looking at multiple sources brought up in Noteduck's comments [1] in the relevant talk section and seeing where they agree with each other is a good start.

One slightly more specific suggestion is this: right now, I think there's an issue where the house is being demolished while it's still being built. Often, one needs to fix or update details of a new addition. In this case, it seems like mostly-but-not-entirely correct things are more likely to be removed, rather than improved. I suggest both heeding the criticisms that have been levelled at edits while at the same time improving quality prior to being questioned on additions. Here are some suggestions:

1. Ensure claims are backed up by strong sources. Multiple, if possible.
2. Try to not just add material, but if possible integrate it into the existing context.
3. Consider drafting additions first. I think I'm going to draft sections prior to addition in my userspace. You are welcome to contribute there.
4. If things don't work out in the end, if an addition or change is being stalled and you're pretty sure it is reasonable (and at least some other editors agree, preferably), then it may be worth trying to go beyond the wp:local consensus and finding the next venue up. That's what I did by choosing RSN. Sometimes it can be hard to know what the right place to go to is, so you can always ask.

Hope this is useful! And, finally, do try to AGF. Most editors are here to improve the encyclopedia, even most of the ones you might find frustrating. Jlevi (talk) 13:22, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Explain what?

I don't know what you're referring to, and your approach doesn't help.[2] I appreciate the partial refactoring. --Hipal (talk) 17:52, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Jlevi already asked you to explain yourself and I was seconding that, it seems we were both confused at your various reasonings and the intensity of your responses. And the intent of my first edit was for you to rethink your hasty imputations, but I realised that it came across as rudely informal and removed it, sorry about that. As a specific point; I can see the obvious but small connection between redlinks and WP:PROMO in a general sense, but I fail to understand why you think that is so relevant here, especially where you are saying that "redlinks alone are a blatant indicator that it's promotional", which just seems like an excessively broad characterisation. Also being "concerned that editors are following in the path of assuming bad faith of others as their main justification for their editing here" was somewhat confusing, I can see how you could think that other editors could be assuming bad faith, but for you to think that could be their only reason for editing the page is a confusing leap of reasoning, people primarily edit because of the page, not the editors. We need the opposing opinions we have for such a controversial page, but we also need to be able to understand each other, so if somebody claims to not understand you it would be appreciated if you just explain what you mean and your reasoning for it. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 06:23, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

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January 2021: Arbitration

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PragerU - dispute resolution noticeboard

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Hi there. I've named you as a "user involved" in the dispute regarding the PragerU page, which I've sent to Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard. [4] Please submit your statement when ready Noteduck (talk) 07:44, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't see it yet, should I check back in a couple of days? MasterTriangle12 (talk) 06:45, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

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I don't have even the slightest connection to PragerU. I'm in NZ lmao. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 01:10, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Do you understand why I would ask? Have you ever looked at this[5]? Horse Eye's Back (talk) 01:15, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Ah sorry, I get where you are coming from now. I keep an interest in PU since it's probably the most widespread propaganda source online and disinfo/public manipulation is a big pet peeve for me, so I like to keep an eye on it even if I'm not that active on wider political topics. I don't do much actual research in the area any more but I still like to pop in on the relatively frequent discussions since they can get a bit weird and rules lawyering keeps coming up which I like to help with.

People with an actual connection to an advocacy org like PU tend to be easy to spot (very hard to identify a particular connection though), since they are usually highly politically motivated and tend to mostly edit pages that are of interest to their advocacy, if they mostly edit just that one page then that's a stronger indication. PragerU might be my most edited page but that's <5% of my edits with the rest being almost exclusively science and technology, a topic that I've never seen a motivated person of those political persuasions take a deep interest in. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 02:11, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Its ~18% and just FYI most right wing political extremists are into science and technology (a fondness for science and technology coupled with a disdain for the "soft sciences" is actually one of the defining features of the type). Horse Eye's Back (talk) 14:14, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

I was just looking at main page edits, but yeah, lotta talk page stuff bumping up the numbers, it's basically the only page where disputes happen. And that might be true for general right wing extremists (despite the interest often being superficial), but it's certainly not true for the theocrats that surround things like PragerU. There seems to always be an absence of scientific curiosity that drives them away from anything less practical than engineering or such, and the disdain for the soft sciences is even more extreme. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 15:23, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Sorry about all this then, its definitely in a different class of controversial from your normal science related pages. I hope you understand that if a talk log goes from #1=129 to #2=7 people are going to ask questions. Not telling you how to edit but editing a broader swath of pages (including stuff I'm not at all interested in IRL) definitely made me a better editor. Sorry again, happy editing. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 16:07, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

All g, it's good of you to check. I only edit what I come across in research/curiosity so I tend to only edit what I'm proficient in, and I like to take my time so one high maintenance page is more than enough for me. Anyhow, keep up your best work :) MasterTriangle12 (talk) 23:43, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

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PragerU edit

Hey MasterTriangle12, I was about to revert this edit [6] but thought I would ask you about it instead. I think I get what you are going for here as there is more to a "university" than just holding classes and granting degrees. However, I don't agree with, "...does not perform any functions...". Educating people by discussing topics is clearly their intent even if some of the information is disputed. So in that regard they are doing something we expect of any school/university. Do you think there is an alternative text that would work? I feel like the original text was fine but figured I would ask rater than just revert. Springee (talk) 16:14, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Mmm, good point. I was wanting to replace the list of things and remove the implication that they might not be meeting the definition on just a technicality. There's a bit of nuance in that their intent is to convince rather than to inform but using an intent-based definition of education is getting a bit pedantic. I was going to say a modification could be "..., aside from producing videos, does not perform any functions of a university", at least until I remembered they make "study guides", which although often considered as just a vehicle for their ideology is at least on the face of it an educational resource, so I might just revert that for now, not sure if I'll come up with something better. (Addendum: I just took a browse through one of their study guides thinking they might have employed more subtlety in the messaging but wow a lot of it is some CCP-level propaganda, just plainly stating the conclusion that you SHOULD come to when thinking about some contentious political issue pulled straight from the culture war, then telling you to write down a justification for why you should come to the conclusion that they gave you based on the talking points that were just provided in their video, if you know anything about how indoctrination is performed in a pseudo-academic setting this is one of the core methods). MasterTriangle12 (talk) 06:45, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

I haven't looked at any of their material much beyond some of the earlier videos on YT. I like that they often present a different POV but it's not good if they are telling you how you should interpret that POV. Springee (talk) 11:42, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, some of their videos are actually decent, particularly ones on less contentious topics, but even the ones where they are explicitly pushing the ideology can be interesting to analyse the messaging from if you want some insight on current right-wing discourse and talking points, and the sources they use tend to get quoted all over the place even if they don't demonstrate the point being claimed (or demonstrate the opposite lol), so it's a good place to keep an eye on. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 20:11, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Sponge bomb

Hi MasterTriangle12, thanks for the link to the bogus "sponge bomb". Wish that you had included that link in your November 10 deletion. Seems like, by now, there should be a reliable source video of an actual sponge bomb out there somewhere. Regards. Woodlot (talk) 21:06, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I regret not putting a bit more detail in first time, since it's not exactly obvious from that video, and looks somewhat how you could expect a device like that to work. I'm really surprised there isn't any other info by now too, maybe it just hasn't permeated into English sources yet, but I guess the IDF is fairly disciplined when it comes to sharing strategic stuff so it might just not be available yet, I feel like they wouldn't want Hamas to know about it beforehand since there could be some ways to prepare for it. More info about it and images might actually come from Palestinian or even Hamas sources first. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 05:56, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

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All good, was hoping someone else could source, I should have just mentioned it on the talk page instead. That article could do with some work, it seems a page on the general practice was merged with a page on the Tibetan practice and it is now unclear what is general or specific to the Tibetan practice. It might be worth returning it to being Tibetan-specific and relying on excarnation as the root page, but I am not familiar enough to make a strong recommendation. EDIT: After reading through everything I see it is exclusively about the Tibetan practice, but is not titled as such and the exclusivity has to be inferred from reading further. MasterTriangle12 (talk) 20:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Do you know why that page not titled "Tibetan Sky Burial"? I feel like I'm missing something, since the term is typically used more generally. Is it used more exclusively in an academic context? MasterTriangle12 (talk) 20:55, 26 June 2024 (UTC)