User talk:Stephan Schulz
GreetingsHi all! I'll answer all messages left on this page here, so that a possible discussion is kept in context. Watch this if you are waiting for an answer.
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RedirectHi Setphan, I am afraid that if you won't take the action now, it won't happen in the coming months at all: Should you redirect "Data Serialization Languages" to "Serialization? If in computing, these terms are enough synonymous, it can be nice. Ben-Yeudith (talk) 01:42, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
WheatWheat, yes, wheat. If you pick a species that has trouble with heat, you will see that. But is that a good way to evaluate the overall situation? I've come to your talk page to ask a question -- is the goal of this type of discussion to reach truth, or to make debating points? (actually there is a third possibility -- you may be genuinely unaware that it's not a representative example). I've come to your page because I believe such a question is better asked in a less-public forum. I realize your page is still public, which is unfortunate; I would ask it in a fully private way if I could do so. Feel more than free to take your time in answering, or for that matter, to delete this on sight. Best wishes. Really. CometEncke (talk) 15:04, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Where's the Bacon? My search-fu didn't find it, am hoping this was a reference to the title page of On the Origin of Species, but any Baconian epigram will be of interest. . . dave souza, talk 18:14, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for addressing my question. And sorry for responding slowly -- real life had me off wiki for a few days. Now for the question about the overall effect of CO2 rise on plant growth. I am glad we agree on the effect of CO2 in isolation. Now let's examine the combined effect. There are three things we need to consider: the direct effect of CO2, and the indirect effects of rising temperature and changing rainfall (I won't say rising or falling; more on that in a moment). Rising CO2, we agree, in isolation, stimulates plant growth. I think it's fair to say, in addition, that the effect is large. For a doubling of CO2, I would suggest that it would not be remotely credible to suggest that the stimulatory effect of CO2, in isolation, would average only 10%, across important crop species (however one defines that). I would suggest that even only 20% would be surprising, though it would be out of the range of "not remotely credible" at that point. Now, temperature. You and I both agree that a doubling of CO2 will produce a rise in global average temperature. The IPCC I believe estimates 3 degrees C. I think that's an overestimate but will accept it arguendo. Before making any prediction, simply an observation about current agriculture: the pattern is that the warmer the region, the greater the harvests tend to be, at least across most of the range of current temperatures on Earth. In terms of agricultural productivity, Nigeria > Mexico > France > Norway > Alaska > Greenland > Antarctica, for example. I am unaware of any evidence one way or the other about the hottest regions with reasonable amounts of water. It would be interesting to know that. I mean, obviously the Sahara has very little agriculture, but I think "dry" is the issue there more than "hot." So let's save that question for water. In light of this, I believe it is fair to say that the temperature increase, in isolation, is likely to produce an increase in agricultural productivity. It is possible that the hottest regions may suffer a loss; I am not sufficiently familiar with the evidence to answer that. But for the regions listed above, an increase seems certain for temperature zones from France on down and likely even at the Mexico level, ignoring water for the moment. Nigeria I don't know one way or the other. But overall, in light of this, it seems fair to expect that temperature would also produce an increase. Now, changes in rainfall patterns. The IPCC talks from time to time about "more droughts." But have they made any effort to quantify whether or not we are currently seeing no droughts? I am unaware of any such effort. I find this curious; certainly the IPCC has shown that it can quantify a claim when it desires to. Furthermore, "more droughts" is a claim which could be quantified in terms of actual precipitation data. Make a mathematically reasonable definition of "drought" or "precipitation variability"; I don't care what it is. A yeare with less than 50% of the mean precipitation (drought); the standard deviation of precipitation divided by its mean level over a 20-year period ("precipitation variability"); whatever. Then, based on actual rainfall data, it would be possible, and I daresay not difficult, once one had gathered the data, to determine a trend. One could then determine what that trend is, and put it in the IPCC report. Feel more than free to correct me on this, but as far as I am aware, the IPCC has not done any such thing. That suggests to me that the data do not show any unfavorable trend in droughts to date. Feel more than free to correct me on this if I am wrong. But if I am not wrong, then I will infer from that that so far, precipitation patterns have not become any worse than they were in the past. Because if they had, we sure as hell would have heard about it. Therefore, overall, we have one change (CO2) which is uniformly favorable to harvests, and dramatically so. A second change (temp.) which is mostly favorable, or possibly entirely, depending on what happens at the hottest end of the scale. And a third one (rainfall) which I infer that data (as opposed to models) don't show overall worsening. Lastly, at high CO2, the plants need less water overall. So even some worsening in rainfall, if it were to happen, would be overwhelmed by that effect. Hence my "blindingly obvious". There is actually one more piece of evidence, weaker than the others IMO, it's possible there is another cause, though I'm not aware of one. That's the trend in the May-Oct. in the Hawaiian CO2 data. That drop has been increasing over time. Not uniformly, there are ups and downs, but the overall trend is clear. This drop is generally attributed to the Northern growing season. If the drop is increasing, the natural inference is that said growing season is getting stronger. It is possible there is another explanation, though I haven't heard it. CometEncke (talk) 18:04, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Cold blob (North Atlantic)Hi Stefan, i just created a new article, maybe you can have a look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_blob_(North_Atlantic) Thanks. prokaryotes (talk) 19:16, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Complexity of Addition in Finite AutomataI couldn't understand the finite automata shown in the Article on Finite Automata(P.65).It might be because I'm weak in binary mathematics.Addition is very simple.I can't get why the author has shown 'addition' as complex.Could you help me and give a brief explanation of each state given in the finite automata.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:49, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Yeah this answer gives me a sense of hope for my doubts.Could you list the four invalid ones for the state R0.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:55, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
I think it would be 0+0+c=0,0+1+c=01,1+0+c=11,1+1+c=11 but I'm not sure.I really understood the wrong states you listed above by these two sentences you've mentioned:"the first two are the input, the last is the lower order bit of the output","so it's not performing addition, but verifying addition".Could you tell why the states in R1 are only 4 because we could also list 0+1+c=11 as a wrong state isn't it?JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 10:01, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Delta | 00/0 | 01/0 | 10/0 | 11/0 | 00/1 | 01/1 | 10/1 | 11/1 | -------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------| R0 | R0 | error | error | R1 | error | R0 | R0 | error | R1 | error | R1 | R1 | error | R0 | error | error | R1 | error | error | error | error | error | error | error | error | error |
Wow that's really great.Now I could understand the states present in the automata and their transitions.To be honest I really understood the answer after analyzing the document many times before you have posted the answer.Also I dont' have a reliable internet connection.So sorry for checking the answer too late.It's my mistake to ask a question without properly looking the document.Anyway that's a great help and thanks for your kindness and patience.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 07:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
QueryThis seems kinda like it's in your bailiwick. Does it actually mean anything? Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 04:31, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Stephan, I created an essay regarding the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement on Meta and I am now looking for ideas regarding the project. I saw that you're interested in sustainability, so I'd love to hear your comments and maybe even have your support! Thanks, --Gnom (talk) 21:43, 24 March 2016 (UTC) Pumping length of DFADo you mean to say that we can only use finite languages for pumping lemma?Could you tell the pumping length for this dfa?Does this DFA accept an infinite or finite language.Could you help me.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 08:27, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
That's a good description of pumping lemma and how we apply it to finite and infinite language.I could see that it's easy to find the pumping length p for finite languages since all we need to do is find a length greater than p such that there aren't any words so we can pump 0 words as you have mentioned.Could you tell is there any way to find the pumping length p for infinite languages.Do we only need to look if a state is revisited to find out it's pumping length p?JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 07:03, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your effort.That made my doubt clear on how to find p for infinite languages.I was really stuck on whether p is actually the number of states in a DFA or is it any other number that takes you through a loop.Now after you told about the 'upper bound' it's sure that there won't be any p such that it's greater than the number of states.Could you tell why we enforce the condition |xy| ≤ m (number of states for dfa) for pumping lemma.In this article(slide 23) it tells that the condition is enforced because of unique states in 'xy'.I couldn't get the need of unique states in 'xy'.Could you help me.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:47, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Okay.Could you tell why the restriction |xy| ≤ m can force y to have a special property as said in this lecture(p.68).JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 07:26, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
Oh I mean to say slide 261 and it's better to read this lecture which says that the author tries to prove the language BALANCE(equal number of 0's and 1's) is regular using the Weak pumping lemma and he succeeds.While after he proves it using Strong pumping lemma I think he fails(not sure about this since I couldn't understand the proof).Then he points out that since the condition |xy| ≤ m is enforced it makes 'y' to have a certain property which I too couldn't understand.Could you tell why the author fails while using Strong pumping lemma.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 08:50, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
Do you mean to say that using the normal pumping lemma we can prove that a language is not regular in a few steps?JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 10:05, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
Even though I could get the difference between weak and normal pumping lemma I tried searching the web but couldn't understand the examples given over there.Could you give an simple example to show the difference between weak and normal pumping lemma.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:43, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Okay.Could you tell why we get "both an a and ab" in the weak version.I think it would only be 'ab' since y only contains 'ab'.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 08:54, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Oh I see.I think you're trying to say that you've really mentioned "both an 'a' and a 'b'" instead of "both of 'a' and 'ab'".It's my fault of how I interpreted your sentence.Don't worry.I think the grammatical session is over.Could you tell whether the 'z' part is bp or is it bp-1?JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 09:42, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Sorry I would like to know if you have mistaken 'z' for bp instead of bp-1 so we get the expression apbp.If we use the 'z' part as bp I think we would get the expression as apbp+1 isn't it?JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 10:23, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Could you tell if we use "l" instead of "1" is it possible to get the expression apbp in the "weak" version.To be honest I couldn't see an "l" in "weak" version even though I could see "l" in "normal" version.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:45, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Okay.Let's consider a finite automaton that has more than one loop(revisits the state entered again) like this dfa considered before.When we look this image we could see the possible loops are q0q1q2q0,q2q3q2 etc but this lecture(p.18) says that there's only one loop in q part.So could you tell if we could have more than one distinct loop in dfa as we have seen in the previous image.To check if a language is not regular do we need to look on all possible loops in the dfa to check whether it obey pumping lemma?JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:33, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Could you tell the steps we should take to show whether the language accepted by this automaton is not regular.While looking this image I can see loop in many places so don't know which all states we have to make x,y and z to check whether the y part contains a loop.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 10:32, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Oh sorry but I still can't get how to know whether an automaton is a DFA.Do we only need to check if an automaton accepts an regular expression to check whether it's an DFA?If that's true should we rely on Pumping lemma to check whether an automaton doesn't accept an regular language and in turn proving that the automaton is not a DFA?JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:43, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
Yeah I think I was really confused between languages and DFA.I thought that pumping lemma is used to check whether an automaton is a DFA.Now only I realized it is used to find whether a language is not regular.When we use the pumping lemma can we use any DFA to check whether a language is not regular.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 08:10, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
I think altogether pumping lemma is used to check whether a language is not regular and that sum of states in x and y shouldn't be greater than the pumping length isn't it?I really couldn't get why the condition |xy| ≤ m is enforced for pumping length 'm/p'.If the condition |xy| ≤ m is violated would it be an issue in pumping lemma?Could you help me.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:37, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Could you tell whether your last sentence violated the pumping lemma.I think you have to say that it's "no longer than the pumping length".Perhaps that's not a problem.Now only I could get that we impose the condition to speed the pumping lemma method.If we haven't imposed the condition could we still state that a language is not regular in less speed compared to the normal pumping lemma?JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 08:15, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
I meant to say speed as " more faster the less it takes to prove a language is non-regular using pumping lemma".Could you tell whether the initial part of the word 'xy' should be longer than the pumping length.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 08:43, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Sorry but I'm trying to ask whether the pumping length m should be greater than the sum of states in x and y or whether the pumping length m should be lesser than the sum of states in x and y in accordance with pumping lemma.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 09:35, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Yeah maybe now I'm on the road.So we're just analyzing the first p characters of a word.Till know I've related 'x' to the initial and states till 'y' and 'y' to the _non empty loop_ and 'z' to the rest of the states left.I think this type of comparison would put you in danger isn't it?It's better to think based on the position of the word.Now we have the word should we look whether the initial p characters of the word repeats?I'm done with the word but still don't know how to analyze the word using pumping lemma to prove a language is not regular.JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 10:38, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Yes of course I tried it.Hardly to say if there's any language that needs memory it can't be a regular language and to prove this we use pumping lemma isn't it?Is there any language that doesn't need memory but is not in the class of regular languages?If there isn't anyone then all the languages that don't need memory would be in the class of regular languages isn't it? JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:25, 18 April 2016 (UTC) Deepness in the Sky = ExploitationIf this is about overlong plot summaries or something, then sure, we can stop them from being overlong. But otherwise, A Deepness in the Sky meets all possible criteria for being exploitation fiction. It's a pedantic and unconventional thing to say, but it's true. It's good exploitation, though, I didn't mean to say the novel is bad exploitation. Bad exploitation doesn't win Hugo Awards. Maybe I should watch Sweet Sweetback's Badass... Song (Q1812665). If I fall in love with the genre, then I should read award-winning hard SF. Did you revert my edit under the false premise that it was unadmiring? 203.215.119.40 (talk) 12:18, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Request for Access in Libertarian Party presidential primaries, 2016Hello! You recently did a full protection on the Libertarian Party presidential primaries, 2016 Wikipedia page. I came to the page to update one of the polls, but as it turns out, someone removed it for being "inaccurate". I would assume good faith, but as the only poll removed by this person was the most recent one showing Johnson trailing Petersen it seems to have been vandalism. I would request that the removed polls be restored to the page. However, since there were two polls removed (and I'm not sure who removed the other one), a copy of all the polling data can be found on Gary Johnson presidential campaign, 2016. Thanks, and have a good day. SirLagsalott (talk) 15:17, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
Collect essay; second bite at the cherryYou participated in an MfD discussion about an essay by Collect that was in mainspace. The result was userfy and it was moved to user space accordingly. The essay has been moved back to mainspace. There is a discussion as to whether it should be renamed and moved. The discussion is here. Writegeist (talk) 00:38, 17 May 2016 (UTC) Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
... let's outdent for five! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:08, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
2019Not too late, I hope ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:14, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
BuchThanks for that :-). HD is a rather regrettable case; I'd say more except there are some slight parallels to mine :-( William M. Connolley (talk) 09:09, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Stephan Schulz. I am contacting you to let you know that there are some problems cropping up on the Or Sasson and Islam El Shehaby articles. We have at least one user, User:Or Sasson, who claims to be at least related to one of the subjects of the articles and at least fifteen reverts between both articles, including one by myself. I know that you are at least active on the Islam El Shehaby article, but I am less certain if you are involved with the Or Sasson article. Additionally, it seems like the topic is becoming a larger issue that might need more eyes to look into and attempt to come up with resolutions. --Super Goku V (talk) 00:12, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
Animal Farm in GermanHi! Are you interested in Farm der Tiere? Somebody's upset about alleged bias. YoPienso (talk) 07:07, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
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A new user right for New Page PatrollersHi Stephan Schulz. A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right. It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best. If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC) ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!Hello, Stephan Schulz. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!Hello, Stephan Schulz. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC) Dispute NotificationI have filed a dispute on the article of Fidel Castro. I do this because it is recommended "If you begin a discussion of another user on a common notice board, it is expected that you will notify the subject user by posting a message on their talk page". Do not report me as vandal. This is the only instance in which I will write something here. If this is not the way to do it, let me know how it is done. Jhaydn2016 (talk) 16:59, 29 November 2016 (UTC) Nice trySorry but WP:CENSORSHIP isn't going to work here bucko. Keep it up and this will eventually make its way all the way up to a request for arbitration. What are you so afraid of ol' Jimbo seeing?--206.255.40.218 (talk) 15:48, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC) FYIapologies, but I think you've been sucked in to the hand waving .... for the first time since I started here in 2011, so I'd also like to express my esteem for essentially every contribution you make. But no one's perfect forever...... (respectfully happy grins) NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:29, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Revert on ref deskI'm not reverting your revert because I don't want to get involved in a revert war with an admin, so instead I'll discuss why I removed that item from the ref-desk: "How does the disability benefits agency prove when people are faking mental illness?" - No one on the reference desk is in a position to answer that question. Disability agencies function differently all over the developed world.--WaltCip (talk) 12:15, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
thanks...for reviewing sources at List of Scientists blah blah. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:04, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
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John Christy article editHi Stephan Schulz. I noticed that you changed the wording of my edit from: Christy and his UAH colleague Richard McNider wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal in which they demonstrated that climate models projected temperatures consistently higher than real-world satellite and balloon data. to Christy and his UAH colleague Richard McNider wrote a commentary piece in the Wall Street Journal claiming that climate models projected temperatures I see your point of not putting too much weight on an opinion piece, and that my original wording did just that - but the new wording seems to suggest that all they do is claim the models are running hotter than satellite/balloon data. I notice in the article they do more than make a claim, they try to make their case and use satellite/balloon data and compare it to average model projections. I'm wondering if maybe the wording can be changed to something like Christy and his UAH colleague Richard McNider wrote a commentary piece in the Wall Street Journal arguing that climate models projected temperatures... I wanted to get your thoughts because it looks like you put some thought into your edit. Actuarialninja (talk) 17:51, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Dow Jones & Company is publisher of WSJRegardless, Dow Jones & Company is the publisher of the WSJ ... ? X1\ (talk) 19:50, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
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LOLNice response on the Mathematics RD ! Yes, I did feel just a little bit embarrassed about proposing an engineering solution :) Gandalf61 (talk) 14:15, 15 December 2017 (UTC) Happy Holidays
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Automated theorem proversYou probably have noticed I am undertaking some improvement attempts on articles relating to automated theorem proving .... please be aware I struggle with the topic and am to a degree mainly concerned with getting citations attached to existing articles and am most happy for any contributions I make to be improved. Thankyou. 04:01, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
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BurkeDon't feel bad about Burke - just because he's been rather hijacked by loony-tunes on the right of late doesn't negate all the good in him. See, for example, Isaac Foot's Liberty and the Liberal Heritage for a rather different perspective than we are used to seeing today. DuncanHill (talk) 10:47, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
climate change task forceHi Stephan, I'm just guessing here... do you want to remain listed as "active" at the climate change task force? There has been nothing doing there forever, but it seems there might be some interest reviving it or converting it to a project. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 04:37, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
Please support the Sustainability Initiative!Hi Stephan Schulz, as a member of WikiProject Climate Change, I would like to invite you to support the Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative by adding your name to the list of supporters. Thank you, --Gnom (talk) 18:51, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
Mainstream view source issueHi Stephan, don't want to distract your focus, but I'd very much appreciate your assistance with assessing a potential source. This discussion is stuck due to lack of a good reliable secondary source for the current outcome; the best so far is a newspaper opinion piece which asserts the anti-science view uncritically. This source from Mainz presents a mainstream position, and in google translation looks pretty good to me. The magazine claims it's "written by independent journalists from all over the world." Can you give a quick assessment of how good this is as a reliable source, and perhaps how it compares to the newspaper piece? . . . dave souza, talk 19:22, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
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Snow close of RfC re WP:RD/G/M?Could you as – if I'm not mistaken – an uninvolved admin have a look at the following? Just a few days ago an RfC was opened on the following question: "Should the page Wikipedia:Reference desk/Guidelines/Medical advice be categorized as a guideline or a (type of) essay"? Although the discussion – which was somewhat acrimonious at times – has lasted only three days, the editor who opened this RfC wrote: "At this point perhaps a speedy close is in order...dont see what more could be said." If I have counted correctly, one contributor opined this was not the right question, writing Neither. One came out clearly for A Type of Essay. 12 others !voted Guideline, and two more contributors even wrote that it should be Policy. It would thus appear there is no community support for deprecation of the guideline status, and that the chance that this may change by a protracted discussion is negligible. --Lambiam 21:42, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
ArbCom 2020 Elections voter messageFeatured article reviewI have nominated Climate change for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. I know you haven't been involved recently with this article, but I hope to get knowledgeable input from people who haven't. Femke Nijsse (talk) 11:12, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Help on Wikiproject Climate change projectHi, any chance you want to help out on increasing coverage and info on this ? Carbon sink upscaling additional info on carbon sink upscaling (missing info) --Genetics4good (talk) 16:36, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
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Thank youReading the talk page archives of Climate change, I cannot help but applaud you and your valiant defense of the article against the vast hordes of misinformed people, partisan hacks, reality deniers, and trolls. If I was in your shoes, I almost certainly would have gone postal after a month at best; how you managed to do this for years is beyond me. Kleinpecan (talk) 13:37, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
ArbCom 2021 Elections voter messagepluto dwarf planetI was just taking a trip down memory lane and saw that you were the first person to explicity declare Pluto as a dwarf planet in this revision. Anyway, thanks for the contribution that you would've forgotten about. 116.251.151.195 (talk) 02:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
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GreetingsHi Stephan, I am currently writing my master thesis regarding Wikipedia and Climate Change WikiProject. I was wondering if you would have time to have a chat/interview regarding this? Best regards, Anda Bordieanu
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