User talk:Fastfission
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You can leave me messages here and things like that. Old messages have been moved to the Talk Archive. Really old messages are at my archives from 2004 and 2005.
[edit] A problem with probable sock puppets
Hi Fastfission, I know you are an experienced editor and a WP administrator. That’s why I am here asking for advice, and maybe more direct assistance, (if possible).
Do you remember *this discussion*? I believe that user:Arbeiter, the original author of that text, has been using the accounts user:DixiePixie and user:Witch-King as sock puppets. (Witch-King and DixiePixie are both new accounts whose main purpose in Wikipedia appear to be agreeing with Arbeiter's POV on discussions and edits related with articles such as Biblical cosmology and Biblical literalism.) I have just confronted him at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Historical development of physical cosmology, but I don’t know how I should proceed from now. Can you check those accounts to see if you agree with my interpretation? I would very much appreciate an outside opinion on that discussion page, and it would be a relief if a more experienced user can take charge of dealing with that probable violation of WP policies. However, even something as simple as an advice would be great. Best wishes. --Leinad ¬ 
»saudações! 05:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- PS: Maybe one of the most suggestive things to notice is that the account Witch-King was created just a few hours after the content move[1] that caused the discussion I am currently involved with. After a some apparently random edits, Witch-King proceeded in trying to undo the move of the content created by Arbeiter. --Leinad ¬ »saudações! 06:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- You both share an edit history regarding at least one of the accused contributers. However, it is mainly due to the fact that Leinad-Z took his allegations directly to you instead of going through an established process that I ask that you recuse yourself completely from this investigation. I have already posted a request for randomly appointed administrator here. I offer my apologies if you have already spent time on the investigation. I just noticed the accusations today. --DixiePixie 19:22, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Honestly I don't really have time to look into this in detail at the moment and take no position in it. We have places for discussing sockpuppet accusations (see Wikipedia:Checkuser). --Fastfission 01:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Newspaper
Thanks for your offer to help. You have email. - Mgm|(talk) 21:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Little Boy
Fast Fission, please contact me. John Coster-Mullen
[edit] The X Club
If memory serves me well, you recommended Janet Browne's pair of Darwin biographies: she seems to skip about a bit in terms of sequence of dates, but gives lots of nice detail. When alerted to an article about the X Club and trying to fill it out a bit, I found that she has Huxley founding the club after Darwin gained the Copley medal, while Desmond and Moore give more dates including the date of its first meeting, and say that the club's first action was to push through Darwin's nomination. Any idea which is right? ... dave souza, talk 14:19, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Robert Oppenheimer
You have done good work in the article but it still can be improved. I hope can see that I am trying to do the same thing you are: create the best possible article about Oppenheimer.
In one of your edits, you said "replacing quote -- the citation was there though it was entered long before we had a <ref> system". I'm don't see what the <ref> system has to do with it. Before <ref> came along, it was still expected to include a citation in the text, and not just list sources in the References section. For example, the Harvard system was one of the recomended systems. Something like "(Seagrave 1964)" should have been included in the text to indicate what exactly the Seagrave reference was supporting.
This not only helps the Wikipedia to demonstrate its reliability as a reference, it also helps other editors understand where different facts come from, so that we don't have to guess what was written in the Washington Post in 1964.
Beyond the lack of clear citations, I think the Legacy section is also in need of slight copyediting to pull it together to present a coherent message. I am trying to do that, but since I don't know where the various statements derive from, I'll have to make some changes, and even simplify some of the existing statements to conform to references I do have access to (Bird & Shirwin, Kimball Smith and Weiner, and online sources). Meantime I'll add {{cite-needed}} where appropriate per your request.
--The Photon 03:59, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fair Use Debate
Hi Fastfission - thanks for the level-headed comments about the Fair Use issue on official portraits, etc. I'm sorry if I've been arguing extremes on this issue - I would like a free-content Wikipedia, but I also realise that for many politicians and public figures in Australia it's almost impossible to get a free image of them and the fair use ones will just have to make do until we can get one (which will take a very long time). Our Copyright Act in Australia got changed last year after the Free Trade Agreement with the US and has made our copyright expiry for pictures now 70 years instead of 50, which means that almost no images will be released for copyright in the next 18 years or so. I hope you can see the difficulties we have, which I don't think some other users understand. I think the policy that's been introduced in the last week or two has got out of hand, and I'm happy to help you support any changes to it that make it a bit more sensible, whilst still supporting WP's free content ideal. Please let me know how I can help. JROBBO 22:29, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm glad to see somebody else is fed up with the insanity of the "fair use" policies advocated by the band of merry whatever they ares that have taken up residence at Wikipedia talk:Fair use. I'm with you on the sighing, though, as well - I don't see what can be done. There's a big group of them there, and there doesn't seem to be any clear way to dislodge them. As you note, the current set-up leads to ever-increasing restrictions on use of non-free images in wikipedia, andno restriction, however ridiculous, can ever be removed. It's incredibly frustrating. john k 16:37, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Henry Moseley article
Hi
I checked the history of the article on Henry Moseley and found that about 2 years ago you included as a reference the biography by Heilbron.
If you still have access to this book, there is one fact I wonder if you would mind checking for Wikipedia. Last week (Oct.27) someone inserted the statement that he was the youngest of 22 children. I was tempted to remove this as vandalism, but I hesitate because it just could be true - after all, Mendeleev really was the youngest of 14 children according to my chemistry text. So the facts need checking for Moseley, and our local library does not have Heilbron or anything else useful.
Whether the statement is true or false, I think it would be useful to insert the correct statement ("youngest of 22", "only child", or whatever) with a reference to Heilbron and the page. That should settle the question.
Dirac66 20:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Good place for informing the computing community...
If it is NOT a good place for informing the computing community of a way to help eliminate some of the problems in the computer industry with one of its major players then perhaps this is not realy a computing community at all. 71.100.6.152 13:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Evolution image
Hi, I see you quickly changed my photo without a consensus. If you want to change the photos to a better quality, so they are not washed out looking that will be fine, but leave the dates in. If you can figure out a way to do this, while including the dates, then do so; if not than please do not modify my uploaded images. You can see here: User:Sadi Carnot/Sandbox6 that I toyed with a "gallery" but it didn't look good, so I copied the images, texted them, then scanned them, and then re-uploaded them. If you know how to do this (with the text) as I had it then feel free; for now I will revert. Thank you: --Sadi Carnot 14:11, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dysgenics
Would you mind taking a look at the dysgenics talk page? Three people are pushing for its deletion, I'm getting nowhere near consensus, and it's probably going to escalate into an edit war soon. What the article seems to need is more sources, consensus that the current sources are valid, and possibly some pov edits. --Zero g 17:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] FPC
Congratulations! A picture you uploaded, Image:NTS Barrage Balloon.jpg, has been nominated for Featured Picture over at Featured Picture Candidates. You can come to participate in the discussion and vote here. --NauticaShades 21:41, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Albert Einstein
Do you have a last comment on the FAR (Wikipedia:Featured article review/Albert Einstein)? Any improvement? I want to be careful before closing it, because it's a highly frequented page. Marskell 07:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nuclear bunker buster
Do you have any knowledge or interest in the topic of Nuclear bunker buster bombs? An editor has repeatedly made major changes which appear to me to be incorrect.[2] But I'm not sufficiently expert to counter all of his suppositions. Some things which I thought were well-known physical principles he calls opinions. If you can help I'll work with you. Cheers, -Will Beback · † · 10:25, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Manhattan Project US Map.png
The image Manhattan Project US Map.png has been nominated as a featured picture (congrats :-) ). Would it be possible to create an SVG version of this map to make it easier to edit, facilitate translations for outer projects, and increase printing quality? --Dschwen 12:06, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Teller-Ulam scheme
Dear Author,
I am professor of physics at the University of Bialystok, Poland. This year we have started a new course on Nuclear Energy and Its Use. During the course, it is impossible not to talk about nuclear weapons, and e.g. hydrogen bond. I would greatly appreciate your permission of using the figures showing the Teller-Ulam scheme, which I found at Wikipedia Commons. My course is placed in internet at our University's site, which facilitates the work of students. For obvious reasons the site is free for all possible users. However, it is also free of any charges and has purely educational character.
With the best regards and congratulations of very clear and honest presentation of the complicated mechanism of the H-bomb explosion,
Ludwik Dobrzynski University of Bialystok, Poland and The Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Swierk, Poland e-mail: ludwik@ipj.gov.pl
212.33.73.20 08:45, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] why the vertical streaks next to mushroom clouds?
I was just asked about the nature of the vertical streamers often seen next to mushroom clouds. What are they, what causes them? Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.176.189.201 (talk) 18:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC).
- They are smoke trails from rockets set off just before the explosion. They allow you to see the blast wave. --Fastfission 22:45, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] a couple articles that may be relevant
Hi, Fastfission. Always a pleasure to be talking to you. I ran across a couple articles today on the way to check a (different) news source:
- http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htchem/articles/20060208.aspx
- http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htchem/articles/20061030.aspx
The former article mentions a "A common component found in nuclear weapons is the neutron pulse tube trigger. This device accelerates microscopic amounts of Tritium or Deuterium into each other, producing neutrons at a carefully controlled rate, and this in turn starts the chain reaction (the big explosion.)" I hadn't heard of a "neutron pulse tube trigger". We have an article, neutron detection, that mentions a "neutron pulse," but it is unrelated. Is there an article for this? If not, are you able to create one?
The latter concerns the Korean's nuclear test. I know this was argued about ad nauseum previously, and I'm not certain that it provides any new information. However, it does emphatically state that the test was a fizzle, and not a successful detonation, which at last glance, the article says it was (with a disclaimer saying there's no way to be sure, etc). It also addresses the radioactive particles discovered post-test.
It may also be worthwhile to point out
Which could serve as further data for nuclear bunker buster (Jane's speculated that funding was still being used for the RNEP, but under a different name. This would seem to confirm it, with the exception that the article itself is not sourced). Also, it may be worth noting that the B61 is being "refurbished", and has apparently reached (or is close to reaching) the end of its shelf-life.
Also
Which mentions the Minuteman has been updated per the QDR. I know Rumsfeld had suggested this, but I had heard mostly ridicule from dod people when I asked about this. I'm somewhat surprised to see it actually carried out (although now that he's gone, it's anyone's guess).
Cheers, ... aa:talk 21:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Obit needed
Since you helped me find articles for Louis R. Vitullo so well a while back, I'd like to ask you to see if you can find the Boston Globe obituary for Hoover the talking seal. That obit would do his article a lot of good. My LexisNexis access appears only to work from the university. My home computer apparently doesn't know it's connected. - Mgm|(talk) 22:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Graphics Lab
I saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) --Zantastik talk 00:37, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Minor image copyright issues
I noticed that two of the images you created (commons:Image:Fair use icon - Movie poster.png and commons:Image:Fair use icon - Political poster.png) appear to have minor copyright issues. The movie poster icon says it is GFDL, but the license was changed to Creative Commons (specifically cc-by-sa-1.0). The political poster icon has a GFDL license. Both of them, though, are derived from commons:Image:Jimbo-wales---fosdem-2005.jpg, which is under the cc-by-sa-2.0 license. I believe, as derivatives, those images also need to be under cc-by-sa-2.0. Since you are the copyright holder, I thought I would bring this to your attention.
A similar comment was made, now on your talk archives, at User_talk:Fastfission/Talk_Archive#Image:Fair_use_icon_-_Book.png_2. -- kenb215 talk 03:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
