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![]() | On 9 February 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sara Mayhew, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Canadian manga artist Sara Mayhew uses storytelling to promote science and critical thinking? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sara Mayhew. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Hi Nmillerche, I think this is going into too much details. The coverage of that case has been very limited moreover, I think we should refrain from adding such extra coverage from a news source because after all, we can't include everything what they report about it. The para on that case should be kept precise and compact since it's just an example, not the topic in the article. Would you reconsider? By the way, great work so far on you DYKs! - Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 08:11, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
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Skeptically Speaking is now "Science for the people". I looked up renaming a page, but it seems a bit confusing as I haven't done it before and to make it more of a pain there is already a page named "science for the people." And I think you have to be some sort of admin, I don't know. But I thought I'd ask you to see if you could help. thanks.. Cap020570 ( talk) 05:42, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Looks good except I'm not quite making the connection between moon mapping and home computers. HalfGig talk 00:52, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
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I'll cc to you what I left for UKoch the other day.
You people surely irritate a person.
I added FACTUAL information based upon my PERSONAL acquaintance with the two gentlemen AND my International Society of Cryptozoology membership for a number of years. There are no documentary sources. Funny, but I thought I had added, "Bruce David Wilner, various personal conversations, year X." Have you, O great guru, never encountered such a reference in a scholarly context? Perhaps you should read peer-reviewed scholarly material now and again.
Who are YOU to determine what information is correct and what information is incorrect? Are you inside Nickell's or Radford's head(s)?
You should keep YOUR PERSONAL OPINIONS about unexplained phenomena out of Wikipedia, IMHO, since you clearly know zero about them. Your articles (remarkably, unwritable to those more knowledgeable) pooh-pooh everything that isn't fully understood. By your Luddite approach, there is clearly nothing left for mankind to learn. BUT, WAIT . . . by the time we get to 12/31/14 and have learned X, Y, and Z (thereby contradicting previously learned U, V, and W), will you insist on sticking to your guns?
No wonder the quality of Wikipedia declines steadily . . . and I apologize if my writing is too learned and incorporates too many brilliant metaphors.
(INSERT NOT GIVEN TO UKoch: Let me tell you a secret about scientists and professors, having served as both. THEY ARE FAR MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR TENURE THAN ABOUT THE IMPARTIAL SEARCH FOR TRUTH. This is reflected in the OBVIOUS fact [mentioned two paragraphs supra] that—despite the assertion that "we fully understand [whatever]"—further understanding that REVERTS our current "full" understanding is TYPICALLY forthcoming, yet the BLATANT GAFFE is never acknowledged.)
(Of course, when some "useful contributor" edits, say, a mathematics article by adding information that is completely non-explanatory, muddled [at best], and largely irrelevant—but shows the world what a self-styled guru the contributor is by means of how much Greek and Latin "alphabet soup" [as Prof. Bailyn used to say] he can interject—about THAT y'all cheer. Rest assured, if I added "1 + 1 = 2" to some mathematics-oriented article, some schmuck would come along and add pages' worth of entirely irrelevant set theory so we can all behold how—here it comes—brilliant and superhumanly knowledgeable and, above all, pedagogically flawless he is. Sure, that's why—in all my endeavors to [e.g.] find another computer scientist who could define "computer" in one sentence—I have yet to collect a single adequate response.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.128.184.140 ( talk) 22:48, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
BTW, I'm BruceDavidWilner but rarely bother so to sign in.
(( plus, ==You have new messages from another user???== ))
Since I deposited the edit immediately supra for UKoch last night, I got a "new messages" notification—but there aren't any.
I see: another mechanism, fully debugged, is used only by the most senior folk ;-) Typical B-plus-to-A-minus programmers who are so infatuated by their own "brilliance" that they cannot be bothered to test and debug their own work—since, of course, their work is perfect by definition.
How about responding to my criticism in adult fashion?
And, by the way, in the article on MPEG-H, WHAT KIND OF CRITICISM IS "THIS ARTICLE ONLY RELIES ON PRIMARY SOURCES; PLEASE ADD SECONDARY OR TERTIARY" -- ? If one gives sources, some sysop (I only semi-humorously adopt this term for the characteristic sixteen-year-old moderator of an AOL community or, like, mIRC chat room) bitches; if one withholds sources, some other sysop bitches.
You folks REALLY need to get your act together. Unbeflippin'lievable. 50.128.184.140 ( talk) 15:25, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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Noticed your revert of my edit. Also glad to see that you agreed about about the repetition. Jodosma (talk) 08:31, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for your comments on Template:Did you know nominations/Astronomical Society of New South Wales. I am responding here rather than in that thread, because I am new to this process and I need to ask for guidance. If you don't think that is appropriate, please just met me know.
The situation is this: once I moved the article to mainspace, I let the Astronomical Society know. They then made changes to both the WP article and their Web pages. I had used their Web pages as the source for straightforward information such as the society's meetings. The changes they made were good information, but the society changed both places to be exactly the same, so now some parts of the WP article are identical to the Web page. Both were changed together by the same author, so there is no copyvio in either direction as far as I can see - but I am a newbie to this sort of thing.
And this is where I need advice, and I was hoping you might be able to give me some kind of pointer. A reviewer who compares the article to the Web today probably could not distinguish it from copy-paste. I am reluctant to rewrite large sections of the article simply to make it different, when the same situation could arise again tomorrow. Can you suggest a productive way forward? -- Gronk Oz ( talk) 01:17, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
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