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Good Morning,
I am looking for a way to contribute my knowledge and experience to users needing support. My PhD is from St Andrews, Scotland, and is in Theoretical Physics. This qualifies me to tackle any question in physics or mathematics. Now retired, I have spent a lifetime buried in books and study, collecting a huge number of books in Buddhism, all Natural Science, the works of the great scientists and philosophers from Thales of Miletus and Pythagoras, all the way through to Newton, Einstein, and Hawking. Most of this involves reading seminal papers by these great scientists.
On a lesser note, I have been studying Buddhism, Islamic science, the classics, U.S. and Western History etc. Perhaps I would be most useful speaking to Global Warming, having studied the current Assessment Report (AR5) from the IPCC, among other things. (My personal opinion is that, through foot-dragging and even stone-walling by our leadership, our planet is effectively doomed).
Anyway, I greatly admire the work you are doing, and it would mean very much to me if you were to utilize what skills I have in the service of (any part of) the project you have undertaken.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
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Sanctandriensis ( talk) 14:43, 18 December 2019 (UTC)James Standerfer (sanctandriensis@gmail.com)
Thanks for your well wishes on my talk page.
I was hoping I would see some more contributions from you by now, or at least see that you've tried out the (perhaps too silly for you) Wikipedia Adventure.
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Hello Jim,
As usual your reply is very concise and instructive. I will do my best to get my rear end in gear, make contributions, and reach out to other Wikipedia editors as well. But keep in mind:
I am not that fast on my feet when it comes to software like this. For instance: Why does a simple response require the construction of a new "section"? Why does Wikipedia recognize "Sanctandriensis" by telling me that the User Name already exists, but informs me that this User Name doesn't exist when I try to create a User Page or Talk Page? This is what is making me nervous about jumping in and making a mess.
Secondly, my main field of expertise has always been Theoretical Physics, in which every post 1950 theory is completely unverified and/or unverifiable. Thus there is no experimental evidence for the existence of quarks, gravitons, gluons, of Dark Matter. For example, the concept of Dark Matter was only introduced because the amount of detected mass in a given, rotating, spiral galaxy, is insufficient for the galaxy to satisfy two very ancient, classical laws: namely the Viriol Theorem and Kepler's Second Law od orbital motion. If that is even the correct solution, all scientists can assume is that this matter does not emit electromagnetic radiation (after all this matter IS 'dark'. As Dubya would say: "Duh") and is thus electrically neutral. Apart from that nothing is known. Hence there are as many theories on Dark Matter as there are researchers. Thus in citing ANY one once source, like a textbook or article, however good a source, as editor I would actually be putting forth my own opinion. Unless Wikipedia prefers literally pages of citations.
Anyway, thank you again for all your help! I'll pick up the pace, and have a merry Christmas!
James. Sanctandriensis ( talk) 21:46, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
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I STRONGLY advise against your attempting to do major edits to Global warming. Except for very new articles, no article has "an author." For this article, there have been over 20,000 edits by thousands of editors, the article has been elevated to Featured Article status, and is semi-protected (the star and lock, top right). Any changes to what represents a current consensus should first be proposed on the Talk page of the article. This differs from the standard editing advice, which is be bold in one'e edits, if reverted (reversed), go to discussion at Talk. David notMD ( talk) 03:26, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
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