User talk:Ward3001/Archive 4Barnstar for a good person
Wikipedia's days are numbered, I fear, consumed by its own nonfeasance. Tribes of influential (= have the most free time on their hands) admins and editors have decided that WP policies say something other than what they actually say. They want to have loose reigns to make WP their playground for their own particular agendas. People who follow strict and standardized interpretations of policies threaten that and must be stalked and rebuffed. The problem on WP is not so much the obvious trolls but the ones who make editing painful for other editors by repetitive questions, tendentious editing, private agendas hidden beneath yet lord of all arguments; immature teenagers and college students who view biographies of living persons as their private political platform rather than a task requiring the utmost responsibility and mature outlook, all in recognition that words can be like flames and real lives can and sometimes really are ruined or at least permanently altered; people who fill up talk pages with nonsense, who see the truth of contrary arguments yet refuse from selfishness to acknowledge them; who endlessly Wikilawyer the most obvious points, and enforce not the policies but the policies as they privately interpret them through the grid of their own private agendas. Most people like me ended up at Missing Wikipedians much sooner, and many such people are enjoying the heck out of other, more responsible wikis, and some enjoying reading the jabs at places like Wikitruth. The price that has been paid and will continue to be paid until something changes is a Project in the guise of an encyclopedia that cannot even be cited by 1st graders, lest high schoolers. Welcome to your Wikipedia. I am done. CyberAnth 20:43, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
We need a content arbcom drawn from reputable reliable institutions that partner with Wikipedia.
Given the level of dysfunction that has come to prevail on Wikipedia, the most appropriate course for a principled scientist is to withdraw from the project. An FYIIf you are interested or have any pertinent content to add to the case, please see this SPI. Thanks!! Wildhartlivie (talk) 08:31, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Please stopPlease stop airing your grievances about me at the Rorschach test article talk page. It is not an appropriate venue and you are being disruptive to the discussions there. You can take it to WP:AN if you think I have been acting inappropriately and you don't want to go to my talk page. That last thing that article needs is you and I hashing it out there. Either seek outside scrutiny of my actions, discuss it with me here or on my talk page, or just drop it. Chillum 03:13, 20 June 2009 (UTC) Just an FYIYou may have picked up from me, the term "null edit" to send a message to others in the edit summary. I should probably let you know that I've been intentionally inaccurate in using the term, the correct term is actually dummy edit. I blame Canadian politeness, I worried that people would think "dummy edit" was calling them a dummy, or something like that. =) I was recently admonished for my careless misuse of the term here: User talk:Xeno#Null edits so I felt I should let you know, in case I was perpetuating an inaccuracy! I've made WP:SMS redirect to the explanation for dummy edit, so I'll probably use that from now on =] –xenotalk 00:59, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
A second e-mailI'm sending you a second e-mail, which reflects more thought on my part.Faustian (talk) 03:09, 24 June 2009 (UTC) RFCCan you see User talk:Faustian#RFC and comment? –xenotalk 15:31, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
question about Revision as of 01:04, 3 June 2008 on Gabrielle Union pagewhy was her music video apperences taken off the page? How was it unsourced if you wacth the vids you can clearly she her in them. what kind of a source could i have provided? As for the poorly written how could it have been written better. I'm writing this cause i add a vid to the list and followed how the oringal person created it.the info should be apart of her bio. Music Videos she has been 3 music video videos in which she starred as the love interest -
Revision as of 01:04, 3 June 2008 (Inferno17 (talk) 17:55, 2 July 2009 (UTC))
Baby you are - Uncle Sam vid on yahoo music watch it http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/--2165841 LL Cool J "Paradise" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqZQIZHQsRg Busta Rhymes - I Love My Chick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxvYZUCmLTE (Inferno17 (talk) 00:13, 3 July 2009 (UTC)) Paul McCartney GAR notificationPaul McCartney has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:00, 9 July 2009 (UTC) RFC on extrasolar planet lists restructuringhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_extrasolar_planets#Restructuring_discussion If you belive this is worth your time, perhaps you could turn the attention of a few other people, besides the few people there already there, that you think would not mind having a look/say. GabrielVelasquez (talk) 22:40, 14 July 2009 (UTC) NoteA request for formal mediation of the dispute concerning Rorschach test has been filed with the Mediation Committee (MedCom). You have been named as a party in this request. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Rorschach test and then indicate in the "Party agreement" section whether you would agree to participate in the mediation or not. Mediation is a process where a group of editors in disagreement over matters of article content are guided through discussing the issues of the dispute (and towards developing a resolution) by an uninvolved editor experienced with handling disputes (the mediator). The process is voluntary and is designed for parties who disagree in good faith and who share a common desire to resolve their differences. Further information on the MedCom is at Wikipedia:Mediation Committee; the policy the Committee will work by whilst handling your dispute is at Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Policy; further information on Wikipedia's policy on resolving disagreements is at Wikipedia:Resolving disputes. If you would be willing to participate in the mediation of this dispute but wish for its scope to be adjusted then you may propose on the case talk page amendments or additions to the list of issues to be mediated. Any queries or concerns that you have may be directed to an active mediator of the Committee or by e-mailing the MedCom's private mailing list (click here for details). Please indicate on the case page your agreement to participate in the mediation within seven days of the request's submission. DisruptiveYou popping into every single thread that is created on Talk:Rorschach test and making sarcastic comments like this and this is starting to become disruptive. People on that page are trying to put aside petty bickering and concentrate on improving the article, please do not drag these attempts down into the mire that has consumed the rest of the talk page. You can continue to criticize in the appropriate venues, but you cannot follow editors about into every thread and belittle their efforts, that crosses the line. Allow us to have productive discussion beyond the dispute at hand. Chillum 03:17, 29 July 2009 (UTC) AfD nomination of Criticism of Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Criticism of Bill O'Reilly (political commentator). We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Criticism of Bill O'Reilly (political commentator) (3rd nomination). Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:13, 30 July 2009 (UTC) Just a wordAs an outside viewer, I've read through all (yes, all) of the discussion on the Rorschach Test page and I think what you said here, if said earlier, would have preempted a lot of the animosity you were receiving from other editors. In that section addressed to Xeno, (1) you expanded on your concern with the article while still being as vague as your ethical concerns would allow, and (2) explained that the vague nature of your concerns were due to your hands being bound by the ethical codes of your profession. What I perceive to be the conflict in the earlier sections (in which you were told to "go away") seems to be because you did (1) but never clarified (2). From the opposite perspective, then, it would seem that you were in fact merely content to vaguely point out that the article itself was misleading while being irrational opposed to providing any beneficial indication of what led you to that claim and how to fix it (such as when you asked if an editor would like you, a professional, to go through all of Exner instead of doing it themselves, as amateurs). From that perspective, it would be easy to view you as an editor content to point to your expertise and vaguely critique while refusing to assist at all--both frustrating and morally demeaning to editors attempting to best improve the article with what limited resources they have. However, your later statement clarifies beautifully your reasons and shows instead that you're more-than-not probably willing to help, but unable to. I suspect that if this had been mentioned earlier, you wouldn't have seemed like a "useless commentator." Because of that, editors misinterpreted your attempts to help (instead viewing you as only willing to criticize) and reacted toward you in a hostile way that you did not understand nor believed deserving of your attempts to help (such as telling you to leave). This in turn led you (and others) to believe that the hostility was due solely to your expertise in the field, which I suspect it was not, at least not on this discussion page for this topic. I strongly believe that if ethics were not an issue here and you were able to contribute to the improvement of the page freely, then the fact that you are a licensed professional would be nothing but appreciated and respected. I only wish that this simple clarification to the complex nature of your situation (and other editors with professional ethics at stake) could have been realized sooner before you and the opposing editors ended up misunderstanding each other into schismatic oblivion. I believe Mirafra attempted this, but it was lost in continued debate over offenses from both sides. Editors on Wikipedia are trying their hardest to create the most accurate and comprehensive articles they can with what they have. Therefore, they value and seek and welcome the input of experts who can give further understanding and context and direct the content of the editing most accurately. However, when it appears (note: appears) that those individuals are unwilling to give input but fully willing to criticize the overall quality of the article, you can see how editors may react the way they did. Likewise, I think professionals are always wary that their expertise may be scorned as pretension because of a very real imbalance of social power between the informed and uninformed, and when they encounter it unexplained, it becomes one of the very first candidates to explain the reason for that hostility. I just wanted to bring all this here because I really don't see a genuine disrespect of the contributions of professionals from them nor do I see a genuine desire to hinder full-access to encyclopedic information in some sort of classist conspiracy from any of you. As with all good tragedies and wars, this really only seems to be a full blown catastrophe because of a misunderstanding. And indeed I think the major schism between very valuable and willing experts and very dedicated amateur editors that was created here over what is essentially a misunderstanding is a profound tragedy for the goals of education and enlightenment. I'd also like to thank you for your own dedication to article quality here on Wikipedia. For this article, I doubt either of the two ideas laid out so concisely by Mirafra will be satisfactorily achieved, though I understand, agree, and disagree with aspects of both. Beyond that, hopefully you will continue contributing as well as you have.Luminum (talk) 11:55, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
RorschachWard, some of your comments regarding the Rorschach test are in danger of crossing the line. If you have issues with a particular editor to the point where you're enquiring as to whether various professional associations might be interested in his editing, you have to take that offwiki, and even then you should proceed with great caution. Editors who make or imply legal or other real-life threats regarding another's edits often find themselves blocked. My advice to you is to accept that the images have been published, and that publication is entirely within Wikipedia policy. Argue the issues, by all means, but please try to avoid personalizing it. SlimVirgin talk|contribs 02:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Ward, nice to talk to you again, where do we stand on this? I saw the Cons and Pros pages and I don't see much value on the cons except for the censoring issue but I think an appeal to the higher purpose of the Wikipedia should help there. I still do think that a if there is a compromise it should be a "true compromise". People that do not care, are not going to take a compromise offer as a sign of good faith, but they will use it to take the argument further to "their favor".--Dela Rabadilla (talk) 02:49, 6 August 2009 (UTC) HeyWard, please. No good can come of it. Focus only on content; that's the only thing that can improve the article. All else is sound and fury. SlimVirgin talk|contribs 18:57, 6 August 2009 (UTC) Would request you stop making personal commentsHave started a discussion here [7] concerning this statement and others. [8] --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:28, 6 August 2009 (UTC) WAY out of lineComparing a Wikipedian to Josef Mingele a nazi who tortured and murdered hundreds of children is beyond the pale[9]. Our volunteers to not deserve to be attacked by you like that. You need to stop acting this way or stop using Wikipedia. Chillum 02:08, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Blocked the IP trollI have blocked the IP that was trolling your talk page. Chillum 15:02, 7 August 2009 (UTC) Would you like me to semi-protect your talk page for a few days so the ips cannot post here? Chillum 19:24, 7 August 2009 (UTC) RfCPlease see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Rorschach test images. SlimVirgin talk|contribs 16:24, 7 August 2009 (UTC) Docjames and Jmh649Ward, I initially posted in the Rorschach section and have seen your numerous posts. I have very limited time, and have only briefly followed all of this; but my main concern has been more than just the Rorschach, but so many of our other tests as well. And so it may not be surprising to find that DocJames who is also Jmh649 does, in fact, appear to have a very anti-psychology/psychiatry/mental health bent. I encourage you to look, using both of his usernames, at his list of contributions; which most recently have been more than just the Rorschach, but now onto the Wisconsin Card Sort and the Rey-Ostereith. Of course, the public is not clamoring to see these (which is much of his argument with the Rorschach), yet he places information in both that significantly hinder test security. There is definitely an agenda there, which suggests that many of your posts were very accurate and foretelling. He also posts about some of the more controversial aspects of ADHD. In one of his posts on someone else's talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Vannin - Vannin appears to be a psychologist) - he claims to be "in the field." Here is the paragraph: Weird request Hello Vannin This is a weird request as usually people are just complaining and leaving the actually editing up to someone else. ADHD is an important topic. The page on ADHD has huge issues with its references. First very few are formatted correctly ( see my note on the talk page ). Second a lot of the sources are poor. They are primary sources rather then secondary sources. For example I deleted one study that was based on 48 people. We want to use systematic reviews of the literature as must as possible. I would like to refer you to Wikipedia:Reliable sources (medicine-related articles) The second issue is the writing style is a bit impenetrable. I am in the field and a lot of the stuff on this page makes no sense to me upon first reading. For example we do not need to say "A study shows" or "So and so from this journal says". This is implied and I have been working to correct it. Help fixing these issues is much appreciated. Yours Doc James (talk) 05:34, 12 September 2008 (UTC) A misrepresentation, I believe. I am not going to post on the Rorschach and other pages at this point, because it seems useless. Also rather not get into it with DocJames, he does not appear to argue points fairly. I am passing this information along to you because you have been around longer; and in reality, appear to have much more time than myself (you may appreciate that I am spending many more hours than I would like writing reports). Even if we can't stop this silliness of tests being put on wikipedia, at least we can highlight the agenda's of some of those that are (and if you look closely enough, there are a couple of others who also seem to have this agenda). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Takamine45 (talk • contribs) 04:31, 10 August 2009 (UTC) Your commentsWard, regarding this comment, I'm sorry but I think this has to be a final warning. The RfC is the place to discuss whether the images ought to be in the article. The article talk page is for discussing further improvements to content. Any personal attacks or other ad hominem comments from you are likely to lead to a block without further warning. SlimVirgin talk|contribs 17:16, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
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