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Precision tests of QED

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Adding the word "among" to the phrase is wrong IMHO. If you disagree I suggest request a ref or clarify, will revert for 14 days and put on my watch list while I try to find a ref in my spare time. Omeganumber (talk) 11:31, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Image removal from William Empson site

OrphanBot took out a chunk of the intro from this site when it removed the image, losing a fair bit of basic info. Might be worth having a look at OrphanBot's approach, as this may be due to some systematic problem which could seriously affect other intros. Also, if you could restore the intro info, that would be great.Thanks. Robma 22:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

OrphanBot does occasionally remove too much when it's taking out a captioned image (maybe one edit in a thousand has this problem), but when it does so, you can find the missing piece inside the HTML comment with the removed image, and whenever OrphanBot thinks it might have removed too much, it logs a message on its talk page. What happened here was that OrphanBot removed the image, then almost two months later, an anon vandalized the intro --Carnildo 02:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

thanks for Ehrman change

Good call on Bart D. Ehrman, even though it's a subtle change... I wish I could notice little things like that more often. --Allen 16:49, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Legoland

Heh - yes, it was very imaginative - almost tempted to leave it. Maybe articles need a "utter nonsense" section? ;)

Your question

My best advice on that would be to use a sandbox in your own space like User:Robma/Sandbox, you'd be able to make more saves before c/p into the right namespace. --Alf ^melmac 10:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Dumfries and Galloway

Unfortunately I've never been to the place myself, nor Scotland, nor the UK. I live on almost the exact opposite side of the world (New Zealand). I found an enhanced version of this image on wikicommons which has been recently voted as a featured picture. I wanted to see more info about this place and went to wikipedia where I discovered the page had no photos! So I put a non-enhanced version of the featured picture in. (The enhanced version looked too artistic and not realistic enough I thought, but if you're intererested it is: Image:Dalveen Pass from Comb Head-HDR.jpg; also this photographer has a lot of very nice photos of Scotland on Flickr.com) Cheers--Konstable 01:29, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Digital Universe

Hi, Rob, you mentioned Digital Universe. This is probably not a viable alternative, unfortunately. I was interested in this too when I first heard of it, but was immediately appalled when I learned that the principals are Joe Firmage and Bernard Haisch, whose judgement in terms of what constitutes reliable knowledge appear to be questionable. Their wikibios can be unreliable, depending on when you read them (at least one of these has been extensively edited by the subject of his own WP bio, in ways which I believe are misleading and intended to slant the article in his own favor), but for an independent and reliable source, see the extensive information obtained from an interview with Firmage in Joe Firmage, A Master of the Universe at 28, Wants to Defy Gravity and Visit the Far Corners Of His Realm, Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, March 31, 1999. (As you can see, I found this story archived at a controversial anti-cult website run by Rick Ross, but AFAIK, Achenbach's Washington Post article has been accurately transcribed at the Rick Ross website).

"Autohagiography": this brings up another irony: I caught Haisch adding links to his own book to many existing articles and also editing articles about this fringe theories as an anon (from the dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net domain in the Bay Area, where he resides), and he wasn't very happy with me for "outing" him. In a message which he left on my user talk page (after he created a user account, Haisch (talk · contribs), apparently in response to my urging him to do that), he wrote

Make no mistake about it. Wikipedia has tremendous influence, and that is precisely why must be both accurate and fair. The Wikipedia is perceived as no mere gossip sheet. Your words could deprive my organization of a million dollar grant because of your implicit judgment of my scientific career.

— Bernard Haisch

In other words, Haisch admits to having a sizable financial incentive to slant Wikipedia articles in his own favor, and he claimed the right to do just that. IOW, according to Haisch, his own personal agenda is more important than the needs of the readers of Wikipedia. This attitude suggests that Haisch is not to be trusted to run Digital Universe wisely, since he cannot be expected to act to serve the best interests of its readers whenever this conflicts with his personal agenda.

Check out Haisch's reputation for fringe publications in places like Journal of Scientific Exploration, a journal which he edited for some years. (The article JSE has also been "sanitized" at times by Haisch to make it appear mainstream, but a glance at the contents of any issue should quickly disabuse you of that impression! Typical issues contain articles allegeding to "scientifically prove the existence of the afterlife", or the Yeti, or ghosts, or UFOs... things like that.).

At this time, I know of no viable encyclopedia project which is comparable to the Wikipedia.---CH 21:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Faithfull

Hi Robma, great work on the name issue. May I gently suggest that in the references, you add the name of the agent who confirmed this info? Thanks! NickBurns 14:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Oops! Just noticed her name was on the talk page. I just added it to the reference, too. Cheers! NickBurns 14:57, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Kenneth Noye

As per accepted guidelines on List of Freemasons, names without Lodge citations are not accepted. If you have independent proof of his membership that does not appear on an anti-Masonic site (said sites fail WP:RS and WP:V), please post it on the Talk page for verification. However, given Mr. Noye's claim to fame, I highly doubt any Lodge would wish to be associated with him. MSJapan 02:41, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Noye was reported to have been a member of the London Hammersmith Lodge in evidence given to a House of Commons committee in December 1996 (The Independent 19 Dec 1996 p 2). Does this pass your stated test for inclusion ? Robma 18:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

ISTR that he'd actually been expelled although I can't remember the reason. However a newspaper report of a submission to the committee is unlikely to meet the requirements of WP:RS, you'd actually need a reference to the committee report if it's there.ALR 18:47, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

There are a few places here and there online that mention Noye was a Mason, and that "was" would seem to be the operative term here - even though no reputable site seems to have proof of his membership (Hammersmith Lodge does exist), but they certainly would have expelled him, as stated above. MSJapan 20:28, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

history of science

Hi! You might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science--ragesoss 20:20, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

speed of light article dispute

Hi,

Could you have a look at the Speed of light article and the discussion? An editor in Hungary has decided that a formula is wrong and resents my efforts to clarify matters. He may have been the one who recently blanked the article. At least he has promised to make trouble.

Thanks. P0M 23:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Alligators

Thanks for your edit to alligator. The page has been subject to repeated moronic vandalism of late, and it was good to see something added that did not have to do with their genitalia. Where Anne hath a will, Anne Hathaway. 18:56, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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Dining clubs

There is a one man campaign being waged against dining clubs one the grounds that they don't deserve articles. I see you've previously edited one such article, and was wondering if you'd care to lend your support at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dining_club ? Many thanks Grunners 18:28, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

T.H. Huxley and common sense

Yes, I see what you're getting at, but consider this: long before the twentieth century there were clear signs that science could and did product counter-intuitive results.
Wasn't the idea of Earth going round the Sun a surprise in its time? Didn't people think it common-sense for the sun to go round the earth?
Even in THH's lifetime there are examples, for instance, Faraday and Tyndall's work on dia-magnetism is surely counter-intuitive? Or the induction of electric current by moving magnets?

So (in my opinion) he ought to have known he was wrong! Actually the comments on common-sense have the character of hand-waving, though their repetition suggests he really did believe it. There are other indications that Huxley's ideas on science were much less sophisticated than Darwin's; Darwin was quite attuned to hypothetico-deductive thinking.

Regards, Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:12, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Tranya

I suggest you ask Clint Howard or find his interview with Star Trek Communicator to confirm that tranya was in fact pink grapefruit juice. He'll tell you how it was one of his early challenges as an actor to drink it despite how he personally felt about it. (His expression in the scene changes as he says, "...as much as I," so he slipped a bit, though the overdubbed voice makes it sound more wistful.) I know I first learned it from a video interview he did, possibly for a reshowing of The Corbomite Maneuver on Sci-Fi Channel: a top-X-episodes showing as voted by fans. It will take a lot of digging through old tapes for me to come up with the clip if you deem it necessary. But where would I upload it without incurring the wrath of the copyright holder? 198.183.6.22 (talk) 17:00, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

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Citation for cavity resonance measurement of speed of light

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Thanks in advance. ― A._di_M.^{2nd Dramaout} (formerly Army1987) 16:35, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

History of cryptography - incomplete URL

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The link doesn't work - presumably the ellipsis in the middle indicates some sort of copy error, ie something copied the visible portion from a limited width display, not the whole URL. Could you fix it please? Thanks Mitch Ames (talk) 14:03, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

sockpuppet editing

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I've removed your citation needed and replaced it with two refs - one online and one from an old OS map. I would have another, but I can't find the book at this moment. I've watched HH a few times - by accident, really, as I was really there playing complicated games on the edge of the forest with two young cousins (I never understood the rules, which changed even quicker than clubs change managers...). Peridon (talk) 19:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hey, you're right! Thanks for taking a look, regardless. Speaking of Winton, I've also been making suggestions for updating the Winton Capital Management article as well, though my third and final request (see here) has gone a couple of weeks now without any reply. If you'd be willing to read that and consider those changes, let me know. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 19:49, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, Rob! Curious if you had time to look at the few updates I had in mind for the Winton article. If not, that's OK and I'll try someone else. But if you could, that would be rad. Let me know! If I don't hear anything by early week I'll probably keep looking. Best, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 07:51, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

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There is a discussion involving your edits at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Jose Miguel Bernardo Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:20, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

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I'd welcome clarification on why the simple act of citing primary sources in biographies of living persons such as trial records is censured. I understand that (eg) misquoted such sources would be unacceptable, but what is the problem with the mere act of citing such sources, and what does the citing of secondary sources add ?

Robma (talk) 13:04, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

See WP:BLPPRIMARY on this issue, which explicitly mentions "trial transcripts and other court records". The problem with such sources is that they always would need analysis and interpretation (e.g., is that part of the record credible? Was that an important aspect of the trial?), and it's not for us to analyze and interpret primary sources. That is something a (reliable) secondary source can add. Huon (talk) 00:06, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

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Re: Hejira reversion

I can't give too much of an explanation beyond policies/guidelines ... but Wikipedia doesn't do no original research and shouldn't perform its own analysis of primary sources. Rather it should rely on secondary sources to perform that analysis. For a more useful answer, you could ask at the noticeboard for the "no original research" guideline. Graham87 04:44, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

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I guess this is a pro-forma warning (as my single reversion of the article doesn't meet the "repeatedly changing content back..." requirement for an edit war). But point taken and thanks for the heads-up about editing "hot" topics !Robma (talk) 10:47, 3 June 2023 (UTC)