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I think it's great that you're working on Wikipedia's quality of Open Source images. There are many pages screaming for editors who like to create original diagrams, art, or graphs - and pages that would at least benefit from a picture from WikiCommons.

I do have one suggestion. The image "RetrospectiveConstructionTrials.png" is supposed to match the "RetrospectiveConstructionGraph.png". That is, I think it is helpful if the words describing the trial match the colour of the corresponding graph. For people who learn visually, this can be a very helpful clue. Maybe you could make the words "Participant failed to decide" yellow again?

Just a suggestion. Keep up the great work.-Tesseract²(talk) 17:12, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Dear Tesseract,

It is you who should be thanked - you have made some fundamental contributions to Wikipedia here.

I understand now - I was trying to avoid ambiguity (in that not all Decide Trials, marked by a yellow traffic light, correspond to 'Participant labels it Failed to Decide' - but this should be obvious). I have reverted the colour of the 'Failed to Decide' case.

Note I applied these changes to the JPG->PNG converted image source. If you still have the original image source (Photoshop format I presume?), you could reconvert the original source images directly to PNG to eliminate compression artefacts. As it stands however, there are very few artefacts, as they appear to have been saved to JPEG using a high quality setting.

Cheers,

Richardbrucebaxter (talk) 03:06, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

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DeterminismXFreeWill modifications

Hi Richard,

It just occurred to me that File:DeterminismXFreeWill.svg says specifically "physical determinism". The positions defined in it though are not defined with respect to physical determinism however (Descartes for examples was an incompatibilists who believed in physical, but not completely nomological, determinism), but to other varieties of determinism such as nomological, logical, or theological. Do you think you would mind editing the image to remove the word "physical" from the vertical-axis labels? Thanks! --Pfhorrest (talk) 06:25, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Pfhorrest, I explicitly included it here because the only form of determinism for which this classification system always holds is nomological determinism. For example, theological determinism commonly uses compatibilism/incompatibilism to refer to completely different conditions on free will (that a) contradict the classification system as applied for nomological determinism, and b) do not even assign all four categories). This follows from the fact that nomological/causal determinism (determined by external X) and theological/logical determinism (determined) are different in kind (and are even mutually exclusive: one can have nomological determinism without theological determinism, and vice versa). It is only when hard theological determinism is asserted that they start to become related to each other with respect to their implications for incompatibilist free will. I tried to bring this problem up at earlier at talk [1]. I notice you have removed the 'nomological determinism' qualifier in the introduction also: ie 'Free will is generally classified with respect to positions on nomological determinism... this determinism... etc'. I suggest we find a solution to this problem. Cheers - and thank you for looking after the free will article while I was away.

Richardbrucebaxter (talk) 06:01, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment at physical determinism

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