User talk:Brunton

Thanks for being the expert on homeopathy

Thanks for your help. It's nice when someone else steps up to the plate and bats when someone who is supposedly an expert refuses to play. I guess he just can't deal with uncomfortable answers. I've noticed that he is equally evasive towards other editors who ask uncomfortable questions. I have commented here. -- Fyslee / talk 16:58, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is wrong with this reference?

Brunton, Edmund Smith was also known as a homeopathic physician. I'm not clear what was wrong with the reference that I provided. You questioned it here: [1] Here's solid evidence that he was a homeopath; this shows that he was a member of the British Homeopathic Society [2] Because this is a minor point, can I ask you to make this change? As you may know, I cannot at present do editing on homeopathy pages, and although this hasn't been deemed as such, I would rather not edit here. DanaUllmanTalk 04:33, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In-vitro homeopathic research and replications

I can email you that this article, but you haven't hooked up your email. If you email me (I'm hooked up), I'll send it. DanaUllmanTalk 03:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You said it was available online. Couldn't you just post the link so that everyone involved in the homeopathy talk page can see it? Brunton (talk) 09:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My error. I thought it was available online but it isn't (without payment). My offer still stands. DanaUllmanTalk 16:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Homeopathy Arbitration

Per [3]

I'd be willing to believe that was a misreading if Ullman's quote of Scientizzle didn't remove six words that change the meaning.

He quotes Scientizzle as saying "I am not as against the inclusion of homeopathy information as others here...Assuming the case for this being a remedy of note is solid, I support a simple inclusion that directs the reader to List of homeopathic preparations, which is an appropriate place to deal with the topic.... I can't see the published state of the research--i.e., Frass et al, & nothing else--meriting more than a minimalist "it's use has been investigated to treat COPD symptoms." then adds "It is interesting how you chose to not give the entire quote from your posting at that same time."

However, the actual quote is:

I am not as against the inclusion of homeopathy information as others here...Assuming the case for this being a remedy of note is solid, I support a simple inclusion that directs the reader to List of homeopathic preparations, which is an appropriate place to deal with the topic. (Even at List of homeopathic preparations, I can't see the published state of the research--i.e., Frass et al, & nothing else--meriting more than a minimalist "it's use has been investigated to treat COPD symptoms.[ref]" statement)

There is no way that that's a misreading - he had to intentionally edit out words to change the meaning, at the same time as berating Scientizzle for not giving the whole quote. That's outright trolling. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 10:22, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

J.B. Hutto

Hi, I saw that you had made some edits to this article within the last year. Unfortunately, it was brought to my attention that the article had earlier been a copyright violation, so I reverted back to the pre-copyvio version. This has had the unfortunate effect of removing your subsequent edits, so I thought I would let you know that you might want to rewrite them, or expand the article. Best regards, — BillC talk 14:33, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin Hutto

Hi Brunton, thanks for the heads-up. I took a look the contribution history of who'd amde that edit; he seemed to have gone on a spree of copyright violations (and bad edits) a little over a year ago before ceasing editing altogether. Most were caught and reverted, but you found one that hadn't. I went through the remainder of his article-space edits and those which weren't reverted were Corporate performance management, Camarines, God of War II, and Making Globalization Work. Some of those have since been so heavily edited that it is not really practical to revert, and besides, there is very little of his material left in them. I'll have a look at these if there's anything that can be done.

Your edit is fine; there is no need to contact the three intervening editors in this case.

Is J.B. Hutto better known by his initials? Like A. A. Milne? I'm only asking because a biographical article would normally have a person's proper name (i.e Joseph Hutto) unless they are better known by their initials -- such as A. A. Milne or e. e. cummings. If so, and you decide you want to rename the article, this is easily done by a move.

Regards, — BillC talk 21:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Johnny Young

Hi... sorry for the delay -- currently working overseas. I would have said Johnny Young (blues musician) seemed more in line with convention, but I wouldn't worry about it at all. The redirects are in place, so your all bases are covered. (From my last sentence, you may be able to guess where I now am.) — BillC talk 13:31, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Accordion Jokes

Great quotation! I've got to see that in print! Henrydoktorski (talk) 20:24, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

tilde count

"it added the time and date when I signed but not my username."

The most likely cause is that you accidentally typed 5 tildes instead of 4. ~~~~ gives you the signature you want; ~~~~~ gives you only the date and time stamp. - Nunh-huh 12:42, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I thought it might be something like that (although I was guessing not enough tildes - I now find that three gives name but no time/date). Thanks. Brunton (talk) 09:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How many?

Your edit suggests you may have a ref with current numbers. Could you state the number and cite the statement please?LeadSongDog come howl 18:24, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Heads up

You're being discussed here, in regards to that Sheree Silver articles for deletion. The creator, Spring12, seems bound and determined to belittle and discount anyone who voted delete. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 04:19, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I upset you with any of the comments I made, I was just confirming the consensus was read correctly. Spring12 (talk) 15:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Which reference?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Homeopathy#Baby_Gloria

Which reference are you referring to? -- Brangifer (talk) 22:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied at Talk:Homeopathy. Brunton (talk) 07:18, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

request

Please explain how this edit is going to help Wikipedia. I think the User talk:Avathaar page should only be concerned with discussion of specific suggestions for how to improve Wikipedia articles. What do you think? --JWSchmidt (talk) 15:38, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. I regret having copied over to User talk:Avathaar his comment about past edits. I think it will be most constructive if "Dr.Jhingaadey" is not distracted from the goal of trying to make specific suggestions for how to improve the content of Wikipedia articles. However, if you have other issues (such as those related to his past editing behavior) that you want to discuss, then I suggest that you start a new page section on his talk page just for that purpose. --JWSchmidt (talk) 18:33, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AN thread started on User:Dr.Jhingaadey

A thread has been started to discuss this whole matter:

If you have any interest in the matter, you are welcome to participate. The wider the community input, the better. -- Brangifer (talk) 17:57, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

studies that you think should be mentioned

Your analysis is flawed. You cannot categorically rule out mentioning studies that "Dr. J" might suggest. Doing so only shows your bias and unwillingness to listen to suggestions from other editors. "Studies of this type are really not helpful" <-- I do not agree. The Homeopathy article should provide an account of the popularity of homeopathy among patients and doctors. Studies that demonstrate greater satisfaction among patients who use homeopathy than among those who use conventional medicine help explain the popularity of homeopathy. This should be mentioned in Wikipedia. --JWSchmidt (talk) 14:08, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"including individual studies will not add any reliable information to the article" <-- What if one published study ("cherry picked", as you say) reported results for a homeopathic therapy as performed by trained homeopaths while another study claimed to involve homeopathy but it reported results obtained by people who have no training in homeopathy and who do not actually follow the practices used by homeopaths? It might be instructive and useful for Wikipedia to compare the methods, results and conclusions of two such individual studies. I can think of many possible reasons for mentioning individual studies and I do not agree that "including individual studies will not add any reliable information to the article". --JWSchmidt (talk) 20:07, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Your last statement sounds like a recipe for an OR and SYNTH violation. -- Brangifer (talk) 01:29, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I do not have a copy of "Randomized controlled trials of individualized homeopathy: a state-of-the-art review" and the abstract is not very clear, but the abstract of that article seems to suggest that there was an observed placebo effect for what they call "individualized homeopathy". I'd like to see a copy of the article and see if the conditions being treated in the reviewed studies were of a type likely to show a placebo effect, if the treatments were actually performed by trained homeopaths and what the assessment methods were. The Wikipedia article about placebo cites studies which reached the conclusion that exactly how a placebo is delivered can influence the placebo response. I have no idea if there exist published studies of the type I suggested. That was just the first example that came to mind as a refutation of you blanket claim that no reliable information can come from discussing individual studies. It might be useful to show Wikipedia readers that only some studies claiming to use homeopathic medicine actually use homeopathy, particularly if published results showed a difference between 1) patient response to homeopathy and 2) patient response to therapy that is only called "homeopathy" by doctors who do not actually practice homeopathy. --JWSchmidt (talk) 15:36, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You mentioned "the homoeopathic community" and "the homoeopathic establishment". In the context of clinical trials it seems to me that we must be dealing with a select subset of "the homoeopathic community". It seems to me that clinical studies should involve medical professionals providing health care according to research protocols approved by human subjects research boards. For example, a clinical study of heart surgery for the treatment of a particular type of heart defect would necessarily have to concern itself with the professional qualifications of the doctors who perform the surgery. It would not be very meaningful to say that the findings of a heart surgery study were "negative" if the doctors performing the surgeries for the study had no professional training in heart surgery. Within "the homoeopathic community" there are medical doctors who have professional training in homeopathy as part of their medical education. It would not take much effort for someone publishing a clinical study of a homeopathic medical therapy to describe the professional qualifications of the medical practitioners involved in the study. In my experience in the USA, contact with patients involved in clinical research studies cannot be initiated unless the medical professionals who will be involved in the study are specified and approved by a review board. I'd be interested to know what professional training in homeopathic medicine Peter Fisher (and others in involved in that particular study) have had. It would also be interesting to poll 100 randomly selected recent graduates of medical schools who have received training in homeopathy and ask them if that Calendula Officinalis treatment should be counted as a homeopathic therapy. It may well be that there are different "schools of thought" with respect to the practice of homeopathy and the answer would depend on which medical school a homeopath received their education from. It may be that "the homoeopathic establishment" is a fictional concept...Peter Fisher might be from a "homeopathic school of thought" that would be totally rejected by other homeopaths. I suspect that any meta-analysis taking an uncritical approach to deciding what constitutes homeopathic medical practice cannot reach any meaningful conclusions about homeopathic medicine. Some of these issues are discussed in Homeopathy – what are the active ingredients? An exploratory study using the UK Medical Research Council's framework for the evaluation of complex interventions where it is suggested that "The empathic nature of homeopathic consultations is often cited as the reason why patients appear to respond". This article includes an interesting claim about "the homeopathic community": "A specific part of the process of homeopathic care is the way in which Lifeworld is matched with what is known about homeopathic remedies. This matching is, in the eyes of the homeopathic community, the most important of all active ingredients." Do most clinical studies of homeopathy take this "active ingredient" into account? Their conclusion ("We conclude therefore that homeopathy can justifiably be considered a complex intervention. This should be taken into account in the design of clinical trials") makes sense to me. --JWSchmidt (talk) 02:36, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Homeopathic humor

For your enjoyment:

  • "Don't drink water - it remembers all the shit it had in it."

-- Brangifer (talk) 16:48, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That s really funny!!.--JeanandJane (talk) 05:23, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I too loved this segment. Heck, I can laugh at myself and fellow homeopaths (and please kick me if I miss a good opportunity to do so). DanaUllmanTalk 02:19, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Believe it or not....the following also applies to most other editors who hold opposing opinions here. I suspect that if we were discussing things face to face over a good beer or red Zinfandel, we'd probably enjoy each other's company and have a good time. That's one of the disadvantages of editing on the internet. It's so damn impersonal. When we can laugh at ourselves, that's a healthy sign. When we can't do that, look out! Cheers to you. Assuming you like red wine, have you tried Sin Zin? Alexander Valley Vinyards is only about 90 min north of you, depending on the traffic. You're privileged to live so close to such great wine country. I have always loved driving up the Silverado Trail whenever I'm in the area, or eating at the Rutherford Grill. It's a beautiful area, especially now when the grapes are ripening. Lake Berryessa, a tour of Beringer Vinyards beautiful buildings, all wonderful sights. I take my wine in non-homeopathic doses ;-) Brangifer (talk) 08:10, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality of "Miasms and disease"

With all due respect, I don't understand why you are reverting my edits? I've provided my contributions with references. There is really no neutral reason for this, as they simply provide the mirror view when writing about A. Campbell's critical review of G. Vithoulkas' book that appeared in the British Journal of Homoepathy. G. Vithoulkas responded to this review, and it appeared in the same British Journal of Homoepathy. If you mention A. Campbell's critical review, you must also mention G. Vithoulkas' response and defense for balance, regardless of your personal beliefs on the topic.

Comments?

Dbrisinda (talk) 11:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First, thanx for your rapid response to my concern about that strange sentence about miasms. Because I have not watched this article until very recently, do you have any idea how that "fact" got there?...and do you have any comment on the RS status of that non-peer review site? DanaUllmanTalk 02:18, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose someone must have had a reason for putting it there. On reflection, I've restored it with a fact tag to give an opportunity for someone to find a source for it. As for the source cited, while it doesn't appear to support that particular assertion (it is always possible that the source has changed since it was added) it appears to be on the website the school of medicine of an accredited university (correct me if I'm wrong - I'm not particularly familiar with the American academic system). I suspect that that gives it a certain degree of authority. Brunton (talk) 10:23, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have just commented here [[4]] on the falsity of this statement and on the fact that it was un-sourced at the reference you provided. And I welcome you and Shoemaker and anyone else to double-check or triple-check my contentions, as I think we should all do with each other to create accuracy. DanaUllmanTalk 23:40, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dana Ullman

Please, if you're going to do things based on his say-so, double and triple check his claims first. He misrepresents sources appallingly, if it suits him. (example: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Homeopathy/Evidence#1c: Ignoring Linde.27s retraction.2C and Linde 1997. Ullman as a tendentious editor.3B Ullman insists others AGF while refusing to hold the same courtesy to others.) Shoemaker's Holiday Over 184 FCs served 16:39, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just a general warning, really, because you're the main person dealing with him. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 184 FCs served 22:55, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

homeopathy 1

Lets put it that way: It would be a lie if an article declares that the collective evidence does not support homeopathy 's efficacy since you have an exceptional source reporting the following: "Homeopathy is a popular type of complementary medicine. It is however controversial because although there is some evidence that it is not just a placebo, no one understands how it could work."--JeanandJane (talk) 23:27, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The statement "there is some evidence that it is not just a placebo" does not contradict the statement "the collective evidence does not support homeopathy's efficacy". Brunton (talk) 01:31, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If the fisrt is true ( according to the source ) then the second is at least misleading. Adlet called it white lies? I think.
Besides that it is edit out of the body of the article.--JeanandJane (talk) 03:47, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No, you are failing to understand the distinction between "some" and "all". For example, some birds are ducks, but it doesn't follow from that that the statement "most birds are not ducks" is misleading, or untrue. Brunton (talk) 09:02, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]


The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For your actions on the homeopathy talk page in defending science and wikipedia. Verbal chat 17:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Homeopathy physician belief/practice surveys

You might not have seen this on the talk page, as it was buried in the flurry of voting. You cited a survey that was conducted in Scotland and had to do with physician referrals. But what do you think of the Astin (1998) paper which reported physician belief in the United States with respect to several CAM therapies, where 26% of physicians believed in the value of homeopathy, and 9% practiced it? Do you believe that this has no bearing on "fringe belief" status? Incidentally, from my review of the literature, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales have some of the lowest homeopathic medicine use statistics in Europe. Dbrisinda (talk) 10:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There may be cultural differences in acceptance of homoeopathy in different countries, but from the talk page it appears that this argument has been overtaken by events. It would be interesting to know on what basis 26% "believed in the value" of homoeopathy. As a means of prescribing a placebo? As a means of getting hypochondriacs out of the office? Of the four main reasons for using CAM cited in the paper, two have no real indication of particular belief in CAM by the doctor: "patient's lack of response to conventional treatment" (AKA TEETH?) and "patient's request or preference" (note the results of the West Kent PCT research into usage of homoeopathy cited on the talk page). And, as usual with any apparently positive research regarding homoeopathy, we get a disclaimer: "Conclusions from this study are limited owing to the lack of large, representative national samples of physicians". Brunton (talk) 08:49, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
26% belive in homeopathy... and "76 percent of [medical] believe in God" per a of Chicago study. At first I wondered why your wiped out my edtis at homeopaty, so checked your talk page to understand why. (Then I noticed the homeopathy talk page archives. Whew! Given the history, the article is wonderful.)HkFnsNGA (talk) 07:28, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Homeopathy lead citations

Brunton, I appreciate your thoughtful analysis on the homeopathy talk pages. You are one of few individuals on those pages that can make rational arguments on the points being discussed. But I would ask you, if you would, to speak with a few of the other editors, notably Yobal, Verbal, and perhaps one or two others, to refrain from irrational and obviously heavily biased edits and comments—this is extremely disruptive. I mean really! We both know that the placement of citations in the lead needs to occur after the statement they are intended to support. And instead, this absurd massaging of the text to include a "negative" qualification and then have the citations appear after it, is really quite ridiculous. Transparent is perhaps a better word. And I'm sure that if any arbitration examiner were to look at this activity objectively, they would come to the conclusion that certain individuals were attempting to mislead, and were not acting honestly, or in good faith.

I think I am operating in good faith here, as I think are you. We just happen to see things differently, but most importantly, we are prepared to discuss things rationally, presenting evidence to support our claims, using good reasons and sound arguments. Much of what some of these other editors contribute on these pages does not qualify as good reasons or sound arguments, and it is often highly irrational, illogical and clearly biased. Quite simply, I don't believe they are operating on the principle of good faith, although I've made every effort to assume they were. And I cordially ask you to redress this if you will, with a note, suggestion, or a comment, that will also have the beneficial effect of de-polarizing the talk pages.

I am fully prepared to accept the negative evidence against homeopathy, provided it is honestly communicated and supported, in a neutral manner that is worthy to be called "encyclopedic." I am not a homeopath, but I have a natural aversion to what I perceive to be heavy bias, especially when it's not supported with good reasons and sound arguments. Dbrisinda (talk) 19:57, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you're talking about putting references which state, "the evidence of clinical trials is positive but not sufficient to draw definitive conclusions because most trials are of low methodological quality and because of the unknown role of publication bias", "however, the strength of this evidence is low because of the low methodological quality of the trials. Studies of high methodological quality were more likely to be negative than the lower quality studies. Further high quality studies are needed to confirm these results", and "we found insufficient evidence from these studies that homeopathy is clearly efficacious for any single clinical condition" after the phrase "these studies are not definitive", then this would appear to be appropriate. They are clearly saying that the evidence is not definitive, and it would be misleading to imply that they aren't. Brunton (talk) 20:23, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
So then you wouldn't object to modifying the first sentence of paragraph #3 lead to say: "Claims of homeopathy's efficacy beyond the placebo effect are unsupported by the collective weight of scientific and clinical evidence, though some evidence exists.[references]"? Dbrisinda (talk) 23:53, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This is introducing needless repetition into the lead. The tail end of that statement is already included in the passage that you are objecting to the referencing of (and is implicit in the words "collective evidence" in the sentence you are proposing adding it to). Brunton (talk) 06:35, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Many moons ago the homeopathy article stated the year when Hahnemann first used the term homeopathy. Not sure what year was given but it was probably way before 1808. Well, here is a quote from a very reliable source concerning that matter. "The name originally bestowed by Hahnemann on his system...(was) the doctrine of specifics," (Dudgeon, p.51) and "from 1796 to 1808 he employed almost exclusively the word specific to designate his system, and after the latter date we meet with the term homoeopathic." (Dudgeon, p.51) Hahnemann initially described homeopathy as "the doctrine of specifics." (Dudgeon, p.55) Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Homoeopathy, London: Henry Turner & Co, 1853. Thought you might like to use this in the article sometime. regards Peter morrell 19:20, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, in the homeopathy article it says 1807, but the ref #172 to an article by M E Dean does not even mention the year 1807 (which is listed in the article), so where has that date cited in the article come from? It has no basis and should be removed from the article and replaced with 1808 as cited by Dr Dudgeon in the ref above, thankyou Peter morrell 07:41, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for putting the changes in as previously suggested. I will see what I can find for you re Kent and Hering; Dudgeon is without doubt the best source, but he is only online in google books or as a download. Will report back in due course, cheers Peter morrell 07:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re your most recent questions, Dr C Hering was famous for:

  • adding many new remedies and greatly expanding the materia medica (e.g. the Bushmaster snake, Lachesis)
  • adding several new nosodes (e.g. Lyssin, from the saliva of rabid dog)
  • he introduced the decimal or x scale of potency, widely used throughout the 19th century[5]

Dr J T Kent was famous for:

  • use of very highest potencies: 10M, 50M, CM, DM, MM (along with others, not a shift he initiated)
  • emphasised case totality, rather than local symptoms or named diseases
  • emphasised vital force
  • emphasised links to Swedenborgianism
  • gave a detailed commentary on the Organon (his Lectures)
  • gave seminal lectures on drug pictures of the materia medica with new emphasis on mentals
  • had a lasting influence on UK and Swiss homeopathy (not much elsewhere)

Healing crisis -- I will come back to...I think you mean the "homeopathic aggravation;" if so, then once again Dudgeon is a good source.

Hans Burch Gram, a Danish physician, was the 1st US homeopath who emigrated to US in 1825, and not the one listed in the article [6] [7]...more cited stuff on all this as I get time. Peter morrell 07:08, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have now added to the Samuel Hahnemann article a cited reference to the 1807 first mention of the word homeopathy. You may wish to transfer it to the Homeopathy article too. Re Hering, he was also responsible for Hering's law. Will try to find more on him at some point as time permits. regards Peter morrell 10:16, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Additional data

Hi, Brunton!

About your — respectable, no doubt! — [undo edition [08:58, 31 August 2009 Brunton (talk| contribs) (113,867 bytes) (Revert three edits which added text that largely duplicated what is already in the article, introduced potentially confusing technical language, and was unsourced (including a sizeable quotation)], I must explain this: "being or not being pro- homeopathy (data venia, Shakespeare), however I think that the additional data I have written there (homeopathy) are not cause of confusion. Never did I want this. If you are (or not) pro-homeopathy (no criticism or irony here, please! — only dialectic argumentation), it seems to be reasonable that showing this...

"(...) Because successive dilutions are ordinarily centesimal ones, the following generalization is useful as presenting its mathematical form:

CH_x = 10 – 2.X (in decimal base), or, equivalently, CH_x = 100 – X (in centesimal base), wich express directly the centesimal dilution idea.

This expression connects both the scales: the Centesimal Hahnemannian (C or CH) and the Common Decimal scale (D or X) for representing homeopathic dilutions, as presented on the following table: (...)"

...makes the article better — don't you think so? According to or not, I am sure that you are doing the best. So, my respects.

EgídioCamposDiz! 17:13, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tina Brooks

Looks good to me, and well-spotted. All of the additions subsequent to the copyvio edit seem to have been free from copyright themselves, and you've preserved them in the current version of the article. I'm taking a look at the other contributions from that editor to see if there are any other problems. He seems to have been long gone, so there is probably little point in leaving a note on his talk page or a notification at WP:CV. Regards, —BillC talk 00:04, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hop Wilson

Just heard some stuff from this guy, saw he had no page, so I created one. It's very light and cursory, but I noticed that one of your userpages linked to it, so I assume you may want to know it's been started. I used only 4 references, though I found a few more (gScholar had some good ones). If you get the urge, have at. I'll prolly peck away at it here and there...

Vulture19 (talk) 00:45, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response on this. As a believer in the WP:TIND view 2, so I'll be pecking away here and there, unless, of course, it gets prod'd... Vulture19 (talk) 22:43, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV discussion about Chiropractic

I think you might be interested in the discussion about Ernst's paper and how to incorporate it into the introduction here. Ocaasi (talk) 04:10, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More discussion going on, this time about whether/how to incorporate sources which address the underlying/specific claims made by Ernst. Talk:Chiropractic#Proposed_edits_to_Safety Ocaasi (talk) 02:22, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Homeopathy 2

If you subscribe to this change about Linde letter - thank you. You have prove you are a good sceptic. I m sure someone can add the rest and the correct citation.--Konzept1933 (talk) 21:07, 2 September 2010 (UTC) You are changing you mind all the time. I think you said you agreed to include somewhere or somehow the letter in the article. What happened?--Konzept1933 (talk) 22:40, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can you show me the diff where I said that? Brunton (talk) 22:44, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"It is a comment on the methodology of a specific paper and as such belongs, if anywhere, with discussion of that specific paper. Even there it needs to be given appropriate weight wrt its context. Brunton (talk) 10:20, 3 September 2010" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Konzept1933 (talk • contribs)
I take it that you didn't notice the words "if anywhere" in that comment. Brunton (talk) 23:19, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not to mention it being a letter to the editor, and thus not a MEDRS. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 14:28, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AN/I notice

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Dilution

A thought has just struck me. Only the other day, I opened a bottle of orange squash and I diluted some - and its thirst-quenching properties improved! It must be homeopathy! :-) -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:51, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Not all remedies ..."

Per your edit comment: I can't chase it right now, but the FDA's definition of Homeopathic should support this statement. Iirc, it's 6X or more.LeadSongDog come howl! 21:13, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That would be a 1 in 1,000,000 dilution. Weak enough for most substances to have no significant effects, but still with detectable amounts of the substance left. You need to get to 12C/24X to be reasonably sure there's none left. Brunton (talk) 22:50, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

oops

  • I accidentally deleted a comment of yours on the talk page of the Homeopathy article, in an edit conflict. I don't know how to properly restore your comment.
  • Looking at the article and talk page history, you should win some kind of award for all the work you have done on that article... maybe a degree in homeopathy! ... just kidding, you really look like you have put in a tremendous amount of work trying to resolve things with so many different kinds of editors.HkFnsNGA (talk) 21:40, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done

I believe that I can not make any suggestion to further improve the homeopathy article as it currently stands. Thank you for reading my extensive commentary and actually taking time to respond to all of it. It was much work, but I believe changes you made substantially improved the article. Thanks for you time. HkFnsNGA (talk) 20:16, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help in this complex matter?

Brunton, I noticed you edit on Phil of Sci related articles, and you have commented at the talk page of the bad faith article. So maybe you were reading mathematical philosophy stuff about ten years ago, too, where “bad faith” arises in a very important and “ethics busting” way. I thought maybe you might be able to help me come up with an understandable sentence or two about this. While “I do not no not a thing” about technical arguments in mathematical realism involving Mackie’s error theory of mathematical realism as it applies to ethics, I am not an expert by any means. About ten years ago, I recall that mathematical philosopher Crispin Wright complained that J. L. Mackie's view on mathematical realism relegates ALL discourse on eithics to ONLY be about “bad faith”, a very restricted ethics indeed. A similar, but less formalized, discussion occured between analytic philosopher of ethics Philippa Foot and Fregean ontology's Alonzo Church about "bad faith", to which I was a witness, and the discussion made my head spin at that time. How can these ideas be explained in plain English, and in only a sentence or two? You can respond at the talk page of bad faith, where I am copying this request. HkFnsNGA (talk) 02:02, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I'd put a line of text into the summary box that had, on previous occasions when I've uploaded covers, automatically inserted the appropriate rationale etc, but it doesn't seem to have worked. I've edited the page to include rationale and licensing sections - is it OK now? Brunton (talk) 13:59, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Now it's completely in order. Armbrust Talk Contribs 14:05, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Looking through his editing history and reading the few comments on his talk page (he's pretty much telling everyone to “fuck off”, although he doesn't use that exact wording) I get the feeling that he's trying to get himself blocked. I'm not really sure how to handle this - I don't doubt he's well meaning but he's definitely becoming a pain on the homeopathy article. I don't want to go to ANI with this just yet and I doubt that WQA will do any good, so I'm unsure how to handle this. Any thoughts? --Six words (talk) 07:13, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are we dealing with a sock of OM or SA? Same POV (many of which I favor), but same nasty and combative spirit. -- Brangifer (talk) 17:27, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I assume "SA" is ScienceApologist. Who is/was "OM"? Brunton (talk) 08:39, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
SR does seem overly fond of the term NPOV - see again here. While the points about UNDUE, RS and FRINGE might be valid, I don't see a POV problem there either. Brunton (talk) 08:56, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OM = Orangemarlin. I hadn't thought of that but I suppose it's possible (I don't recall SA's style). There's no question that I share their POV quite often, but that doesn't mean it's OK to edit-war your preferred wording into or out of the article, and to revert when there's a talk page consensus like the one about the Swiss HTA is disruptive. --Six words (talk) 12:09, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure - OM seemed happy to participate on talk pages (that seems to be what he got into trouble about - I didn't know he was blocked until now) and so, as far as I remember, was SA. The current problem is that SR is reverting against consensus without any reference to the talk page. Since he says he won't engage on his own talk page either there doesn't seem to any way to communicate. Brunton (talk) 12:26, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Homeopathy 3

I don't understand your edit summary here:

Do you have more information or links? -- Brangifer (talk) 17:30, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There was a discussion (continued here) on the Talk:Homeopathy page in which it was concluded that we couldn't use this paper because it has been withdrawn from the current version of the Cochrane database (see here and here). The same issue has recently come up again on the Talk:Homeopathy page, and an editor pointed out that the withdrawn paper was still being used as a source on the Oscillococcinum page, so I removed it and the text it referenced, which since it is a comment specifically about this review (although for some reason it implied that it was two separate reviews) is now unsupported. Brunton (talk) 08:34, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I found the link that contained the "Withdrawn" wording. -- Brangifer (talk) 04:34, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Brunton. I don't think we have interacted before, but I saw you copy edited some text I added at Homoepathy. Thanks for that.

As I am sure you are well aware I am working my way through the article at the moment and am about to come to the public opposition section. It is an odd section, one I have not seen in too many articles. I am not entirely sure what its purpose is. Much of the examples have been mentioned elsewhere in the article and even the ones that haven't have had equivalent examples mentioned (i.e. universities no longer offering courses). It doesn't have an introduction and seems to just be a list of examples where people have criticised or taken action against homeopathy.

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Enja released this album in Germany. Justin Time released it in Canada. Do you know which one came out first?
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Vmavanti, I was going on the album’s article, the Allmusic ref given there, and the album’s entry in the Penguin guide, all of which say Justin Time. The copy I have on Justin Time doesn’t mention a release on Enja. The album was edited and mastered in Montreal, which also suggests Justin Time rather than Enja. I’ve also found another Allmusic page that gives a Justin Time “digital” release in 1999 and an Enja CD in 2000. Discogs shows the Enja release as “Copyright © – Justin Time Records Inc., Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Enja Records”, and the Justin Time one as copyright Justin Time for both, for what it’s worth. Brunton (talk) 21:37, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It's good to see you dig into the subject. Not everyone does. It certainly makes sense that recording in Montreal makes Justin Time the likely choice. After years of entering errors, which I still work to correct, I learned the hard way that, for whatever reason, the jazz albums at AllMusic have many mistakes. Wrong dates, wrong labels, wrong albums. I've seen unreliable photographs of covers. A photograph doesn't always determine the right date given that albums are released at different times in different countries. For jazz, Discogs.com is usually more reliable, though you can't use it in citations because it is crowd-sourced and I have seen mistakes at Discogs, too. At that site, it's helpful to look at look at every release of the album. Because this is the English-speaking Wikipedia, I favor albums released in the U.S. and U.K. because of the readers. With exceptions of course. Foreign musicians will often naturally sign with foreign labels, so I do the best I can. You know I have to decide somehow. Because jazz record collecting is a niche hobby, you sometimes find collectors use recording dates rather than release dates. Their interest is partially biographical: They like to see the continuity in a person's work. But I would like to see that interest explored in the body of the article rather than make the discography as detailed as a collector's book. Clear as mud, right?
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I keep telling myself that I’ve had enough of trying to sort this stuff out, but I keep going back... In the current case, does it even pass GNG? Do the sort of dictionary/glossary entries from which it is sourced count as “significant coverage”? Brunton (talk) 20:49, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I missed this response, but todays developments here are, shall I say, an amusing indication of failure to get it. I'll think about the significant coverage aspects, as I haven't before. I have also discovered that you've been on the project longer than I, something I didn't realise. -Roxy the grumpy dog. wooF 14:59, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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RAJIVVASUDEV, the post that you are claiming the article was copied from is dated May 2021. The article has been on Wikipedia in close to its current form for over a decade. Brunton (talk) 11:27, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
OK, you must respond to all of them.Thank you for clarifying; I am removing the template in accordance with your statement. RV (talk) 11:32, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Again, RAJIVVASUDEV, that’s a post dated February 2019, over a decade after the creation of the content in the article. Brunton (talk) 11:33, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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RAJIVVASUDEV, that one is dated September 2018. To quote the earwig report page, “Be aware that other websites can copy from Wikipedia” Brunton (talk) 11:37, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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A Night at the Village Vanguard

I can across "The recording was made by Rudy Van Gelder, and was the first live recording made at the Village Vanguard.[1]" while reading through the A Night at the "Village Vanguard" page; I thought that was really cool information, and a fascinating source. I figured it was a coin toss between you and Helen Puffer Thwait as to who put it there. TlonicChronic (talk) 16:56, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Shipton, Alyn (2022). On Jazz: A Personal Journey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 182. ISBN 9781108834230.

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Cheers for all the tidy up edits you are doing. I just haven't had time to get into checking each one - but it seemed likely many were just name drops. Koncorde (talk) 14:07, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blue Note Monk

I agree wholeheartedly with your complaints about the unilateral destruction of the page about Thelonious Monk's Blue Note sessions -- as well as the combining of the pages of "Genius" vols 1 & 2 --both done in January by a single editor. In both cases the current edits muddy up the waters on what had been accurate, easy-to-understand pages. Not to mention that they were long-fought-for pages which were the result of much collaboration.

I don't have much fight in me these days, but I will support any group effort to find a better solution that what exists there right now.Sojambi Pinola (talk) 18:10, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References:

2021: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Complete_Blue_Note_Recordings_of_Thelonious_Monk&oldid=1054449575

Current: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Blue_Note_Recordings_of_Thelonious_Monk

2021: (the graphic of the volume 1 10" has been deleted): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genius_of_Modern_Music,_Vols._One_%26_Two&oldid=1015818325

Current: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_of_Modern_Music,_Vols._One_%26_Two

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Hi Sojambi Pinola, by coincidence I was just thinking about this, I'm currently reading Blue Note Records: The Biography by Richard Cook, and between that and a couple of Monk biographies etc. there is plenty of coverage of the sessions. I might get around to drafting something based on them next month, and then think about moving back to an article about the sessions (and their reissue history) with redirects from the various later reissue albums. Brunton (talk) 19:09, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There existed a massive, easy to follow article about the Monk Blue Note Sessions. I am afraid it might have been deleted in this current mess. Sojambi Pinola (talk) 10:28, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is that article. It was REPLACED with one of the season albums. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Complete_Blue_Note_Recordings_of_Thelonious_Monk&oldid=1054449575
Sojambi Pinola (talk) 10:34, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The original page was called "Thelonious Monk Blue Note Sessions". Shall we revert these edits and add citations?Sojambi Pinola (talk) 10:39, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Northumberland?

As in, that Brunton? I don't think I've clocked your username before but I suddenly noticed you in a nice pile of locally-relevant stuff ... no sweat and do feel free to tell me to get lost as I am just being nosy ... I am writing this, fyi, at a very very short distance from the Greys in Embleton! Cheers DBaK (talk) 11:47, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you're over on the coast, probably not that Brunton, more this one! Brunton (talk) 21:01, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Gosh! I didn't even know there was another one! Thank you, interesting read. Cheers DBaK (talk) 08:22, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I'd bring up homeopathy, but why are you linking a couple of activities and then saying qualification is not imperative. Scientifically you know that's not the case. Indepthstory (talk) 19:57, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally each and every paragraph does not require a name. You put a paragraph may not have a pronoun to start. Indepthstory (talk) 19:59, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If they have been linked, they've been linked, and continue to be linked unless something changes (for example if the sources linking them are retracted). They have not been linked "at times", either they have been linked or they haven't. Brunton (talk) 13:16, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]