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Awolf002
11:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up! I am watching many astronomical objects article, being a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects and I saw your valuable contributions. Feel free to join us "over there". Awolf002 11:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I have tried a few times to add citations to the Messier 67 page. I am doing something wrong. Vegasprof 01:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I just edited the Messier 67 page again and inserted the citation, right after the words "fully understood". The problem is that the section "References" does not appear. What am I doing wrong? Vegasprof 02:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
==References== <references />
You can find more info at WP:CITE, WP:FOOT and m:cite.php. Just ask again if there is anything else. Happy editing! -- zzuuzz (talk) 02:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I also saw that on de the Blue stragglers page is rather weak. Thanks for the heads up! Regarding the account on de, a general mechanism to share an account between "projects" is in preparation. For now, if you want to edit in another language or project you must create a new account. People who develop the "single sign on" software ask us all to use the same user id (and password?) to make the transition easier, once it will happen. Hope this helps. Awolf002 14:46, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
This article should probably be deleted. The information in the article is probably presented better at extrasolar planet. Using the ADS Abstract Service , I cannot find papers that use the term "supergiant planet". ("Giant planet" was used by some papers to describe planets that are larger than Jupiter.) Dr. Submillimeter 21:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I responded to your query that you placed on my talk page. My response can be found here. If the message isn't on my talk page, please see the archives for the time period of your original message. Feel free to post any further comments on my talk page, and I'll respond to you as soon as possible. Cheers, Daniel Bryant 11:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Please only add comments to the article's talk page. -- Northgrove 21:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Why not get something together in user space and then others can look it over. I've previously considered a Habitability of Red dwarf systems given how long that section is. Your title might be simpler.
In general, Planetary habitability needs a going over to modernize the reference formatting. I'm glad people are looking at again after its In the News link. Marskell 09:26, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear fellow Wikipedians, I strongly oppose incivility in talk pages, or any other blogging situation. If someone gratuitously insults me (meaning, they go out of their way to say something insulting when it would be possible to make the same point in a non-insulting manner) they lower themselves in my opinion. My strategy in that situation is mixed, but eventually converges to totally ignoring the person, for one of two reasons: 1) If they cannot figure out how to say what they want to say without insults, their opinion is unlikely to be an informed one, and is hence unworthy of response, and 2) I don't like to be insulted. This message is not directed at anyone in particular, BTW, but at everyone out there who has done or might do that. I will do my very best to follow my policy myself. Happy Editing! Vegasprof 03:25, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Can we end the tug-of-war over material on the Six-Day War? You are invited to take part in a discussion. Please see Talk:Six-Day War, topic "Controversial changes". Hertz1888 21:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
I suppose that it could have been an honest mistake, but it's a morally certainty that it was vandalism. I've given him a warning — though as it's an IP address he might not have been responsible for any of the other actions from that address, so I didn't want to block despite its long (but unrelated) history of disruption. -- Mel Etitis ( Talk) 08:20, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
You wrote the pseudocode on Hirschberg's algorithm - can you please explain the high level description, especially Pref[]? 89.53.120.154 15:06, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
The wheels are coming off the bandwagon. My guess is that global warming alarmism's high point was when Al Gore got the Nobel Peace Prize.
There isn't, and never was, a consensus that man's activities are causing significant global warming and that we should take costly steps to stop it. Even as more and more (presumably well-meaning) political leaders (e.g., Geoge Bush) sign on to global warming alarmism, more and more scientists are speaking out against it. See, for example: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport#report
In science, truth tends to win out in the end, and the data are not all in. We just have to be patient. Vegasprof ( talk) 22:04, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
-- Uncle Ed ( talk) 00:36, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
You're doing fine, Ed. Keep going. Based on the contributions on the talk pages, I conclude that a fairly good percentage of Wikipedians know that GWA (GW alarmism) is not justified by the evidence. There is no danger that the United States will ratify the Kyoto Protocol, even if Democrats win the White House and Congress in 2008; people who don't understand the United States may not realize that. After Kyoto is buried (it is already dead) we may or may not negotiate a sensible treaty, and if so, it may be ratified, in spite of the damage the GWA people have done to the credibility of the entire idea. Courage. Vegasprof ( talk) 22:56, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
This section is addressed to many people (you know who you are). I am not a climate scientist, but I am a scientist, and I can tell that there is substantial disagreement on the issue among those who know what they are talking about. Given this fact (the fact that there is no consensus that it's necessary) any talk of diverting trillions of dollars worth of resources to abate anthropogenic global warming are premature. Wikipedia editors who promote global warming alarmism, defending "their" articles against any attempt to bring balance, are damaging Wikipedia's reputation. Global warming alarmists, as a whole, by crying "Wolf," are making it more difficult to actually take sensible measures in the future, if and when it is determined that that is necessary, and are damaging the credibility of those trying to solve global environmental problems.
The Kyoto Protocol, which is patently absurd, will never be ratified by the United States Senate. To identify environmental action with that protocol damages the cause of environmentalism. Al Gore is a polarizing figure in the United States, and his reputation is very low among a substantial fraction of voters. By choosing him as a poster boy, the movement lowers its credibility. By refusing to allow the word "controversial" to appear in the opening paragraph of the article An Inconvenient Truth, Wikipedia editors are supporting the film, which, like all documentaries, especially those shown to children, should be re-edited if it contains even one factual error.
But the worst possible damage is in the future. If it really does come to the point that we should do something expensive to correct global warming, the political opposition generated as a natural reaction to the current unwarranted alarmism could remain, and prevent us from taking necessary action at that time. In could even interfere with international efforts to abate massive atmospheric pollution, a problem whose existence is recognized by a true scientific consensus.
Here is my appeal, to William Connolley and many others. Stop deprecating the prominent scientists who refuse to join the bandwagon, and give fair play to their opinions in Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia has a responsibility, to the millions of people who come here to do research for their homework in school (or whatever) to show respect for all serious opinions on controversial topics.
As I said above, I have confidence that truth will prevail; it usually does. But the damage done before its final victory can be great. Vegasprof ( talk) 02:14, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
I have compiled a list from some info I found on the internet. You may find it interesting. The list I created is here. Elhector ( talk) 21:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Here (and also, if possible, here?) Justmeherenow ( ) 05:27, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Given our past interactions on various topics I thought I would make the following offer.
If you ever have something you want me to offer an opinion on or that you feel I might personally be interested in anywhere on wikipedia, its talk pages, or within any of the official forums such as noticeboards, RfCs, RfAs, and the like, please contact me directly on my talk page and feel free to reference this standing request. I trust your judgment in deciding which topics might be of interest to me, and please keep me informed of any topics in general as well as items specifically involving you personally. -- GoRight ( talk) 01:00, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Both http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html and http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/ list 2009 March 5 at 10:48:43 pm EST (15:48:43 UTC) as the launch time. I'm not sure I see the problem. -- mikeu talk 03:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
I did a little cleanup. It really need inline citations using {{ cite news}} and {{ cite web}}. It is also past a stub. Vegaswikian ( talk) 18:10, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Well, fellow Wikipedians, my predictions (in the section Global Warming I wrote in December, 2007, which you can still find on this page) are slowly coming true. Although there is substantial effort throughout the world, including here on Wikipedia, to marginalize those who don't go along with the so-called "consensus," more and more people are coming to the realization that there really isn't one.
Having a scientific consensus is not the same as the public being in full agreement. For example, I'm sure there was a scientific consensus that the Earth was round before the public at large mostly believed it; ditto with the Earth going around the Sun. Even in the beginning of this century, when there was a scientific consensus that there are germs that cause disease, most people refused to change their habits to take this into account. (I read an article lamenting this fact, and stating that they would simply have to concentrate on educating the young.) So, the opinion polls reported by Rasmussen etc. do not constitute evidence of a scientific consensus, or lack thereof. But the opinions of leading scientists, such as Freeman Dyson, do. (It is shameful the way the AGW people have tried to marginalize Dyson, whose intellect is one of the greatest in the world. You don't get to be a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study by being dumb.)
The current political controversy is whether we should take drastic steps to curtail the supposed global warming effect of man's actions. I don't know whether the Earth will warm (or cool) in the future, but I know that no one else does, either. Forcing the bulk of humanity to pay a high cost to correct this problem, when we don't know whether these sacrifices will have any significant effect, or even whether the problem exists at all, is truly foolish. Vegasprof ( talk) 03:31, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
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I have noted that evidence of any flaws in the theory underlying the current AGW movement quickly gets deleted from Wikipedia pages, such as in the recent edit war at Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I am not the only one who has confronted this issue; I'm sure, with some effort, I could compile quite a list of Wikipedians frustrated by this constant POV pushing. Unfortunately for Wikipedia's reputation, this has also been noticed by some outside Wikipedia. The long-run effect of this will be to damage Wikipedia's reputation, since people will figure that if the "climate-warming" related pages are blatantly biased, they should doubt the objectivity of the entire Wikipedia system. A very recent article reporting a detailed investigation of the actions of certain Wikipedia editors is found here. The question I pose to the entire Wikipedia community is this, "Should Wikipedia continue to tolerate this?" I welcome any suggestions. Vegasprof ( talk) 23:18, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi you recently showed interest in the following article [ [2]] and the inclusion of new text, one of the editors has asked comments [ [3]] and i was wondering if you had any further thoughts on this. Thank you. mark nutley ( talk) 19:26, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
-- mark nutley ( talk) 23:16, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Not that I doubt you, but we need a verification for the fact that Rose was Peter's mother. The source at the end of the paragraph does not say so. Thank you. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 02:23, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
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