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You can find my blog by searching Google for my Wikipedia user name. It's not a secret. It's full of posts about the bad science put on the main page by irresponsible Wikipedia editors. None of these editors can be bothered to correct the bad science, because the policy, WP:Verifiability has no standing on Wikipedia, no meaning. Go ahead and OUT other editors, go ahead and make up information, go ahead and plagiarize. Blog, blog, blog, who cares? What editors on en.Wikipedia should care about is that other editors are making up information and adding it to articles and no one minds that this is being done. The usual reasons--no common sense, no interest in making Wikipedia a place where editors are really valued, too much bad bad bad science, like a plant family article sitting on Wikipedia for years with a misspelled name, being revert warred over a comment that C4 photosynthesis includes stomata opening at night, threats by admins who SCREAM and then another threatens to block you for reverting when you are not in a revert war, false accusations. Shit, how could I have stayed this long, especially when I started with the User:Dennis Brown welcome of getting blocked for being a sock of a user who had no article contributions like mine whatsover? Take your bad science and shove it! User:AfadsBad/Archive2 User:AfadsBad/Archive1 Template:CopyvioI'm very sorry to see how you've changed this talk page since I looked at your last reply. I really hope that my comments weren't part of the reason you decided to leave — I was confused and asking for your help, and I wasn't saying that you were causing any problems; I'm sorry if I made it sound as if I was. Please read my reply anyway! Checking the copyvio template, I see that you followed its instructions. It looks like work will need to be done on the instructions: this template is not supposed to be used that way, and the Duplicate Detector really needs to have the questionable text on the page (even if it's not visible) in order to work properly, so I'll see if I can improve the template instructions. Nyttend (talk) 21:59, 9 October 2013 (UTC) GoodbyeSorry to see that you were frustrated with Wikipedia and decided to retire, AfadsBad. Being a collaborative process means that sometimes you get your way, often you don't. I find it helpful to choose the battles I think are important to put my effort behind and don't sweat it if I'm reverted or if some article I support gets deleted. No one "wins" every debate here.
Never mind, he has his bad science blog to dedicate his life to. Sure beats fixing problems yourself! I'm sure there's thousands of Chadian ecologists and meteorologists out there who can be a radical scientist and fill the void... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:14, 24 October 2013 (UTC) Request for commentAs you previously participated in related discussions you are invited to comment at the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC for AfC reviewer permission criteria. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:00, 18 October 2013 (UTC) Pedra de GaveaHey there! I'm the editor who nominated Pedra da Gávea for GA. I read your blog post, and found it very insightful. I just want you to know that I want to improve Wikipedia, not make it worse. If you are at all willing, I'd love to work on making the article better. The article needed someone with geology know-how to "fix" it, and I'm sorry that my writing wasn't very good; I focused most of my attention on the inscription.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 16:09, 23 October 2013 (UTC) Your splendid blogThank you for listing my achievements in the last round of the WikiCup with such prominence on your blog (blog post Wed 13th November). It was indeed an impressive list of FAs and GAs, not forgetting the 79 DYKs. The review processes involved in getting some of the articles to GA and FA standard were arduous. Take Desert for example. You were there at the time, made some criticisms and suggestions which were addressed and were satisfied at the time that the article met the GA criteria. So why the change of heart? By the way, some of the points you make on your blog are incorrect. Your statement for example that Atlantic Puffin had been on the main page is untrue. And you can't even spell my name correctly, or perhaps you are referring to some other editor I know nothing about! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 15 November 2013 (UTC) Interaction banI see both Henry and you are still having problems. I'm not entirely sure what's going on this time, but perhaps requesting a WP:IBAN might help. If Henry is the reason you're no longer enjoying editing Wikipedia, it might help eliminate the problem. Happy holidays.--MarshalN20 | Talk 17:50, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Kahuzi-Biéga_National_Park reference to your blogAbout this edit: I don't think your blog qualifies as a reference, unless you're claiming to be knowledgeable about the park itself. It looks like you just want attribution for your choice of words, but the way we do that in Wikipedia is through the article history. If every sentence in every article had a reference for everyone who wrote it, we'd have a nightmare. So I'm going to remove the reference to your blog, but keep the phrasing, since you have now contributed them. --GRuban (talk) 22:05, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Oikopleura dioicaAccording to this source, the tunicate Oikopleura dioica "has the smallest genome known to date in animals - only 72 Mb". You apparently know better. (And by the way, I am prepared to admit that the DYK hook for Tunicate was badly worded and that the "may" should not have been included.) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:40, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Request your opinionI'd like to get Dent corn up to FA status eventually--since it is arguably the most important cereal grain grown in the developed world. It's a slow project (not one of my high priority projects), but one that I plan to move up the ladder over the next few months. Would you be willing to bury the hatchet and check my work thus far and possibly provide a few suggestions for going forward?--ColonelHenry (talk) 02:59, 23 January 2014 (UTC) The taxonomy section contradicts the article, a variety and a species are not the same thing, the taxonomy is of the species. Use page numbers. ELS is a primary source, the USDA should have plenty on the varieties, refer to ELS from another source, but don't use for information. Without doing any research, I thought it was the non-feed corn variety, the yellow, and the white dent is what is made into masa. The introduction loses its agricultural importance, but should emphasize it. Start out, dent corn is a variety that is distinguished by its kernel shape, was developed for the reason by someone, and is available in yellow and white, differing by starch content or starch type, and is now grown for certain purposes, the yellow for this and the white for that. It comprises what percentage of maize production worldwide/USA. The taxonomy section should be the specifics about its development, including, countries of origin, centers for biodiversity. The part about the grasses photosynesis is way out there in its current location. Link both flint corn and the type of floury corn bred for the result, and move out of lead into the "taxonomy" section. I see yellow and white are at bottom, needs better developed in its own section. Sould have large section on production, it is an ag product. Needs GMO information, genomics information, specific agricultural research stations (Albany, CA?) for genomics and crop production, locations where it grows (soils, ranfall amount and timing), fertilization, seed production, harvest, how, when, loss of crops, insect, fungal, etc., pests and research. USA/global perspectives. Section on starch, nutrition. Markets. Its presence in mixtures. History of production, development of markets. --AfadsBad (talk) 16:13, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
First paragraph disorganized. Pick either timeline or importance or something. Probably timeline. 1. What it is, okay; 2. Made a land grant college in what year; 3. this led to expansion of sci and ag; 4. funds were raised for this; 5. NRHP here, I guess. I might put this after the first sentence. Paragraph 2, okay, but what administrative offices, what department. " It features exhibits on geology, paleontology, and anthropology, with an emphasis on the natural history of New Jersey, that include fluorescent zinc minerals from Franklin and Ogdensburg, a dinosaur trackway discovered in Towaco, a mastodon from Salem County, and a Ptolemaic era Egyptian mummy." Its exhibits emphasize the natural history of New Jersey and include geo, paleo, anth including ... I would probably not include the two specific locations, I would put the mastodon first, then the trackways, unless there is a reason otherwise. HistoryFirst sentence is a run on and mangled beyond sense. Try two sentences: land grant, act; then next sentence what each of these land grant colleges were for. Good to include the information, though. Can you write more directly? The state's selection was, ... a lot of these. I don't think they read well for a general encyclopedia. "The state selected Rutgers due to the efforts of Cook." I don't understand why the funds were appropriated and from what? "In 1864, Rutgers College was named New Jersey's sole land grant college which provided federal funding pursuant to the Morrill Act of 1862 for the development of engineering, scientific, agricultural, and military education at one school in each state.[1]:pp.87–88[2] The state's selection of Rutgers (instead of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University) was largely influenced by the efforts of George Hammell Cook (1818–1889), a professor of chemistry and natural sciences who became the college's vice president and appointed state geologist in 1864.[1]:pp.87–88[3][4]:p.27 With the college's land-grant status and funding appropriated for scientific studies, Cook's role would grow to include research and teaching in the areas of geology and agriculture.[1]:pp.87ff.[4]:p.27" In 1864 the State of New Jersey named Rutgers College as their sole land grant college. Pursuant to the Morrill Act of 1862, this designation gave the state federal lands to sell to raise money to develop practical education in agriculture, science, military science and engineering. George Hammell Cook (1818-1889), a professor of chemistry and natural sciences, influenced the state to select Rutgers over College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). with the land grant status and new funding for scientific studies, Cook expanded his research and teaching into geology and agriculture. Cook later became the college's vice president and was appointed state geologist in 1864. Some suggestions, quick, not exact. But I think it is stilted, does not flow well overall. --AfadsBad (talk) 23:48, 6 March 2014 (UTC) History continuedMore run on and disorganization, repetition. My suggested rewrite is a quick one, you can probably come up with better. Six years later, during Rutgers' centennial anniversary of its second charter (1770), the college's board of trustees decided to build Geological Hall to house the new scientific programs. College president William H. Campbell (1808–1890) solicited donations from alumni and other supporters in an extensive fundraising effort for the purpose. The trustees commissioned a design for a Geological Hall from Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (1847–1918), a young architect from New Brunswick. Hardenbergh's great-great-grandfather, the Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736–1790), was Rutgers' first president and one of its founders, and his grandfather, Rev. Jacob Janeway served as vice president of the college. Geology Hall was the second of three projects that Hardenberg designed for the college, following an addition to a building (now Alexander Johnston Hall) that housed the college's grammar school (now Rutgers Preparatory School) the year before. The third project, Kirkpatrick Chapel (1873), was designed to complement the simple Gothic Revival style of Geology Hall and was erected on the north side of Old Queens.[5] An exhibit featuring Hardenbergh's Gothic Revival design mixed both Gothic and classical elements that preceded the mixed forms of the later Victorian Gothic Revival period.[7] The original plans were for a red brick building.[7] However, to save moneys, the design was revised to use New Jersey brownstone to complement the exterior of the college's oldest building, Old Queens (built 1809–1823).[5][8] "Hardenbergh's design mixed both Gothic and classical elements that preceded the mixed forms of the the later Victorian Gothic Revival period.[7]" I rewrote this because it is too close to the source, but I also question its usefulness here. What the registry blurb is trying to say is that the architecture departed from the increasingly popular Gothic Revival with its mixture of Gothic and classical forms, and possibly that it was a forerunner of the Victorian Gothic Revival, a sloppily mixed and grotesque architectural form that took hold of some buildings before Princeton (?) started the Collegiate Gothic architecture that held sway for so long from the late 19th century. I would find a better source for this statement, because it may be important architecturally, the style choice for this building that it was Gothic Revival but different. Geology Hall was completed in 1872 at a cost of US$63,201.54 (2013: US$1,215,365),[3][a] The first floor contained lecture and laboratory rooms for physics, geology and military science, and housed the college's armory.[1]:p.101 The hall's second floor was designed as a museum to house the college's natural history artefacts and geological specimens.[1]:p.101 There were initially classrooms for agriculture, until Rutgers built New Jersey Hall (1889) to house the Agricultural Experiment Station. Geology Hall also contained lecture space for chemistry and engineering for several years, until new Chemistry and Engineering buidlings (1909 and 1910 respectively) were built across Hamilton Street on land that became the college's Voorhees Mall.[1]:pp.148,157 This last sentence is hard to understand. "were built across Hamilton Street on land that became the college's Voorhees Mall" If the land became Voorhees Mall, are the buildings on the mall, were the buildings replaced by the mall? Geology Hall housed the offices of the Rutgers geology department, now called the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, from 1872 until 1979, when it moved to the university's Busch Campus in Piscataway. This was the last of the university's science department to move across the Raritan River to the Busch campus.[11] Today, Geology Hall houses offices of the university's administration and the Rutgers Geology Museum. In 1973, Geology Hall was included with six other buildings on Rutgers' Queen's Campus on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places the National Register of Historic Places.[7][12] Standards, amateurs and RandiesAfadsBad, first let me say how much I appreciate the very high standards you expect from Wikipedia articles, especially stuff that lands on the main page. It is indeed embarrassing for Wikipedia when poorly-sourced items get featured there, or the main page drives traffic to poorly-written content. That said, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written mostly by amateurs. And I mean "amateurs" in its base etymological sense: People who love to investigate and write about the topics that interest them. In this sense, and I hope this doesn't come across as overly sentimental, Wikipedia is driven off of love and not specialized expertise. As a result we get mistakes on the main page sometimes. I stepped through the DYK nomination that upset you and saw several spots where the mistake could have been caught but wasn't. I actually have never dealt with the DYK process, but like everything else I'm sure it could be improved. Again, this is a labor of love driven by unpaid amateurs, and given that I think overall Wikipedia turns out a surprisingly respectable result, but it will never be perfect. I think it's particularly wrong to characterize some of the editors you have been as "Randies". The defining feature of a Randy is that a Randy will tendentiously pursue some wrong-headed idea until it gets into an article out of exhaustion. I think the editors you've been talking about are the opposite--they take on board valid criticism and become aware of their strengths and weaknesses, and seek out and accept help when they need it. However, these editors, like everyone else, makes mistakes, and I'd bet their mistake rate per unit of content produced has gone down over time. When a mistake happens, the least productive response is to rip someone's head off and run it up a pike, that will only result in resentment and defensiveness.
Sorry to see you driven out by a barbarian (again) Dear HalfGig, I'm so sorry to see here that the ad hominem fallout from submitting articles for DYK has caused you to give up in disgust. Your experience convinces me, further, that these various efforts to promote wikipedia (including the efforts to push articles to GA and FA status) are very damaging to the community. What a horrible situation. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:23, 5 February 2014 (UTC) It appears that name calling is the norm on en.Wikipedia. Just one more of those rules that don't apply to anyone, unless you're an insider needing a hammer. "Verifiability" being my all-time favorite arbitrary en.Wikipedia rule. Make it up to win the WikiCup, but newcomers actually have to use information from their sources, not just falsify what they can't understand, then edit war to get it kept. --(AfadsBad (talk) 14:33, 5 February 2014 (UTC)) Oh, my, "learn to write," because obviously it's that I can't write that leads me to template rather than correct, you brilliant, insightful, civil Wkipedian. Oh, my, so helpful, you polite little en.Wiki editor, adding fuel to the situatuion. Maybe I will listen to you if the flames die down, but, still, at least you're moving on from attacking botanical experts. Take your troll butt off my talkpage, Smith. --(AfadsBad (talk) 14:24, 5 February 2014 (UTC)) Cwmhiraeth's articlesIn the discussion with ColonelHenry in the previous post you make many references to my failures. For example you said "But it's not a "mistake now and then," it's multiple mistakes in every article" and "she has contributed hundreds of such articles, everyone of which needs [to be] extensively rewritten to be accurate."and "Every article Cwmhiraeth has written has nonsense at this level." Sweeping statements indeed, so lets be more specific and take as an example my most recent article on Americamysis bahia, an opossum shrimp that is used in research. This is a newly created article and provides readers with information not previously available on Wikipedia. The article is of course incomplete, as befits a start class article, but could you point out the "multiple mistakes" and where it "needs to be extensively rewritten to be accurate". Choose another recent article if you prefer, they must all be as bad as this one! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:56, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
And, when we get past this crap, I will be glad to look at the rest of this or some other article. But let's find the organism first. By the way, now that you know not all bats echolocate, are you going to correct that main page taxonomic turd? --(AfadsBad (talk) 18:53, 8 February 2014 (UTC))
By the way, this was a bad reversion. You fail to put this information in context, it's badly written, and this is not what tunicate classification is mostly about, as you make it appear. --(AfadsBad (talk) 14:14, 8 February 2014 (UTC))
COI templatesI wake to see that you've added COI templates to a couple of articles to which I'd just made administrative edits (articles in which I'd not previously had any interest). I wouldn't argue against these additions. But while the COI template doesn't say that it is explained in the talk page, it does say that this is where the matter is discussed; I've always thought it better to add an explanation there when I add a COI template myself. And therefore my additions of Talk:John_Paul_Morrison#COI and Talk:Barry_Leiba#COI. As for IBM Distinguished Engineer, here "COI" is more blatant, but I can't manage to take seriously the corporatese in which this thing is written. Perhaps this article is ripe for deletion. Semi-relevantly: On occasion I've taken quick looks at "Wikipedia watch" type blogs, but almost all have been terribly dreary, wittering on at such a great length about alleged (and perhaps actual) injustices that my eyes glazed over. Your blog is a refreshing contrast, concentrating on content as it does. I'm painfully aware of having forgotten almost all of the very little hard science I ever knew, and your blog is a salutary reminder that I should think thrice before tinkering. -- Hoary (talk) 01:08, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
DYK? On occasion I've come up with something I thought worthier of inclusion than some of the DYKs I've noticed. I usually pay them no attention. Today: we're told tiger penis soup can command US$300 a bowl, and its key ingredient has been counterfeited. Well, yes: plenty of dickheads are seemingly obsessed with exotic dicks; that they pay over $300 a bowl for something so labeled is hardly surprising. And counterfeiting here seems the obvious way to do business (and indeed benign). But on the one or two occasions when I attempted to read the procedure for submitting a DYK candidate, I never got more than halfway. Yes. I'll nominate the IBM non-article myself, but first have to attend to WP-irrelevant concerns. So perhaps nine hours or so from now. -- Hoary (talk) 03:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
IBM autobiographies on WikipediaI just got back from vacation and found some correspondence about COI referencing my article on Flow-Based Programming. At a general level I know what COI means, but I am afraid I don't know where to look for the notation - is it in the article or in the talk page? Also, does it mean someone else should have written the article? Sorry to be obtuse, but I am not clear how it is relevant to my work. Now that Flow-Based Programming is taking off worldwide (today's Google search got 32,600 hits), I am sure I can find any number of people to rewrite the article, if that is deemed necessary... Could you clarify what is going on here, and what you would like me to do? PS I recently upgraded some diagrams to make them prettier - is that the problem? TIA Jpaulm (talk) 02:31, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
TermitesI removed the discussion of the bee from DYK to its talk page. With regard to your comments on termites, I find that an alteration on 30th August 2011 in this edit changed the taxobox of Termite from "ordo = Isoptera" to "ordo = Blattodea". This was marked as being a minor edit and there was no explanatory edit summary. Unfortunately it was not followed up by changing the taxoboxes of other articles in the Category: Termites so you get inconsistencies between articles. I have now resolved that to the extent that I have updated the taxoboxes of all the Coptotermes articles. Will I get a pat on the back from you? No way! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:32, 13 March 2014 (UTC) What Wikipedia science articles lackWhat do Wikipedia science articles lack? Is it the participation of subject matter experts? Would their involvement help? I ask you. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 23:11, 24 March 2014 (UTC) Harassment
ReturnI see you decided to return to wikipedia. The scathing blog still running? I haven't contributed to DYK directly now for over 6 months. I see your comment "now User:Dr.Blofeld, who we have already met for contributing to very, very bad flora and fauna sections in en.Wikipedia DYKs and Good Articles". Show me one article where I actually wrote very very bad flora and fauna sections myself. I wrote Tephrosia apollinea myself and asked for you to check it out and never got a reply or an article on your blog which left me rather disappointed :-) Oh and Ambohimanga is now a featured article. You criticised my promotion of it to GA. I believe the author is very experienced in her field too, far more experienced than you over Madagascar topics.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:12, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
What do you think of......Naegleria fowleri? I just happened across it, and would be interested to hear how you'd rate it. I'm now starting to be deeply suspicious of all articles we have on microorganisms, but I don't have the scientific knowledge to justify that suspicion. — Scott • talk 16:25, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
D'ohI think I just wrote your name in conjunction with the word "crud" at the ANI discussion when I meant Cwmhiraeth - obviously. However I'm now about to step onto a subway train so can't go back and fix it. If I did, please change it and point anyone to this comment if they have a problem with it. Sorry about that, shouldn't type while in a rush. — Scott • talk 18:37, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
WalesI assure you, we work 5 days a week here as well ;) Only in death does duty end (talk) 21:33, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Out of pure curiosityWhat is your scientific training? You can answer me privately if you wish so. I am just curious to understand where you are coming from. While I do not appreciate in full your animosity, I begin to see why you are so frustrated.--cyclopiaspeak! 20:55, 10 April 2014 (UTC) I've engaged with you there. To be clear- I'm willing to do what I can to help the article, but you're going to need to reply to me. J Milburn (talk) 23:07, 14 April 2014 (UTC) I note that you have added a factual accuracy tag to this article. Since the whole of the section appears to be referenced, could you explain on the talk page what you believe is inaccurate? As it stands, the tag is unhelpful Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:54, 18 April 2014 (UTC) Asking for geology checksI am working on some state parks and the State of Connecticut has some resources that are quite good, but I want to make sure that they are correct and I write the sections well. I don't think I'll have too many issues with it, but it is a bit confusing since they frame in it the context of the trails in the park. Specifically it states "Rock Types Found Along the Trail" and lists Igneous with Granite and Pegmatite and Metamorphic with Granite gneiss and Alaskite gneiss, but says Sedimentary - none.[2] Could you spare some time to help fact check the actual page as well - particularly the point about Split Rock not being considered a glacial erratic because it rests upon the same rock type. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 22:06, 22 May 2014 (UTC) Pedra da Gávea... againIt's been awhile! First off, let me (re)introduce myself. I'm the editor who worked on Pedra da Gávea about a year ago. I'm also the editor who royally screwed up when it came to the geology section. Anyway, some time has passed, edits have been made, and I've also added a few new things (I used your blog and implemented your suggestions, and while both were a bit biting, they were very helpful). I was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look over the section/article and give me an unofficial peer review. I'm not submitting this for GA approval (at least, at the moment), and it's not part of any WikiCup nomination. I'd just like to get the article looking nice (and accurate!) because I think its interesting, and I'd really appreciate a little bit of help. My knowledge of geology is, as you probably already know, a wee bit rusty.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:01, 28 July 2014 (UTC) RfC: AfC Helper Script accessAn RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to comment. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:05, 1 February 2015 (UTC) Hi, May 2016 A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing. FunkMonk (talk) 09:06, 2 May 2016 (UTC) Possible removal of AWB access due to inactivityHello! There is currently a request for approval of a bot to manage the AutoWikiBrowser CheckPage by removing inactive users, among other tasks. You are being contacted because you may qualify as an inactive user of AWB. First, if you have any input on the proposed bot task, please feel free to comment at the BRFA. Should the bot task be approved, your access to AWB may be uncontroversially removed if you do not resume editing within a week's time. This is purely for routine maintenance of the CheckPage, and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You will be able regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:36, 8 November 2016 (UTC) |
