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Tillicum

Just FYI. Your photo of a killer whale here claims that it is Tilikim in San Antonio. The GPS coordinates definitely place the photo in San Antonio, but as far as I have been able to figure out, Tilikum was never there. User WikedAngry just removed the photo from the Tilikum article with the note "the whale in this photo is not tillikum. that is kyuquot at seaworld san antonio". I don't claim to be a whale ID expert, and can't identify the whale in the picture, but thought I should just let you know in case you have information that I don't. Thanks. Don Lammers (talk) 17:57, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your notes. I was not entirely sure that it was Tilikum, so I've updated the description of the photo. BTW, I had added the (approximate) image GPS coordinates by hand, but I did indeed take the photo at SeaWorld San Antonio. I also have photos (1, 2) of Tilikum at SeaWorld Orlando; both orcas have very similar markings and dorsal fins. — Loadmaster (talk) 17:39, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Defensive gun use

I like your recent edits to defensive gun use, I just wondered what you would think about moving your second sentence up about 2 sentences into the discussion of estimates. Obviously the main controversy revolves around the various estimates, and obviously those on both sides of that scale have a particular slant to their numbers. I am just concerned that the vagueness of "other social scientists". It's much easier to be NPOV if we attribute the studies to their authors and lay them out in that context. Shadowjams (talk) 23:16, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Sure, whatever makes the text flow better. I added the cite to support the estimate made by Hemenway; the original text was not clear about his estimates. So the two should probably be combined into a single train of thought. As to the "other social scientists", I was just quoting what the cited article states. This part could be tagged with {{cn}} or simply just removed. Either way, the text should make clear that there is a range of estimates (100,000 to 2,500,000 incidents) made by different experts, mostly derived from different interpretations of the same sources. — Loadmaster (talk) 18:14, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, I wouldn't tag it with CN because I think it's probably substantiated within those studies. Not to say any one of those studies had any specific advantage over the others. But there's no point in tagging something where X says x and Y says y. If they're already tagged. In my opinion, there's a lot of range in those debates (I didn't create the article but I redid it from a kinda incomprehensible stub) and I suggest the "range" option because I think that's the most npov way to state stuff like this. Statistics of all sorts have certain people reporting on them, and assuming they're honest, they'll probably come up with similar estimates, and if they don't, it's because there's some difference in something. In sociological studies that's almost expected. So, I think in a new article like this it's best to just report the ranges of estimates from various authors, and then to discuss criticisms a paragraph or two below.
I'm sorry if you didn't want this much response from your small, but excellent edit :). But you seem to have a good sense so I wondered your opinion. Shadowjams (talk) 06:29, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

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Peer-to-peer advice

Dear Loadmaster,

We are working on a group project for our “Online Communities” class at Cornell University, where we are aiming to become active contributors to the Wikipedia community. We have picked the “Peer to Peer” page and saw that you have been a contributor in the past. We would like to propose the following restructuring of the article and would appreciate any feedback/advice you have for us:

1. Historical Development 2. Current Applications a. Communications 

   Other P2P Applications

b. Content Delivery c. File Sharing Networks 

       i. Streaming Media

3. Architecture 

   a. Routing and Resource Recovery
       i. Hybrid Models
       ii. Structured Networks
       iii. Unstructured Networks

   b. Security and Trust
       i. Routing Attacks
       ii. Corrupted Data and Malware
   c. Creating more resilient and scalable computer networks
   d. Distributed storage and search

4. Social Implications a. Demographics and Usage stats b. Incentivizing resource sharing and cooperation c. Privacy and Anonymity d. Economic Implications 

   i. Music/Film

5. Political Implications 

   a. Network Politics
   b. Network neutrality
   c. Intellectual Property law and illegal sharing

6. Current Research 

   a. Future Trends


Please let us know what you think about this restructuring as a way to improve the article. We will also be looking to add sources and information. We welcome any feedback! Thank you!

AlyssaG92 (talk) 21:17, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Looks good. See my response on the peer-to-peer talk page. — Loadmaster (talk) 16:12, 30 September 2013 (UTC)


Merging Social Peer-to-peer Processes

Hi Loadmaster,

I am working with AlyssaG92 on this course project. I was making some edits and I came across this page Social peer-to-peer processes, which I feel there is sufficient grounds for including in our Peer-to-peer article. What are your thoughts on this, and what is the Wikipedia protocol for this action? I have created a section about this on the peer-to-peer talk page. Thank you! CBCompton (talk) 15:13, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

My response is on the talk page. — Loadmaster (talk) 17:55, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank You

The Helping Hand Barnstar
We wanted to present you with a Barnstar to show our appreciation of your assistance in helping us with our course project. As new editors in the Wikipedia community, your feedback was greatly appreciated and instrumental in helping us contribute to the Peer-to-peer article. We also wanted to say thanks for your prompt responses and patience as we made our first contributions to Wikipedia. CBCompton (talk) 03:18, 10 October 2013 (UTC)