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Contents 1 Coin toss table 2 Ron Glass at Univ of Evansville 3 re: Edit Warring:3RR appeal 4 TWA 5 Interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject American football?

[edit] Coin toss table

Hey, I just thought I'd drop you a note to say that I appreciate the effort you put into User:Lomn/Sandbox. It's an excellent demonstration of the point we're trying to illustrate to Pce3. Well done! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 22:55, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

The question is why User:jclerman et. al. failed to include such a table in the Half-life article if their intent was to serve other users rather than themselves. ...IMHO (Talk) 06:50, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

(Sorry, Lomn, to be replying on your talk page) Such a table doesn't belong because

• it is a bulk table of primary source material (we don't include such in Wikipedia);
• it is (arguably) original research; and
• the table still doesn't prove the point that you're trying to make, Pce3. Starting with a sample of radioactive material, you can never be sure that all the atoms will have decayed by an arbitrary point in time. You can predict how likely it is that at least one atom will be left, but you can wait for the age of the universe and not be certain.

Please, Pce3, don't impugn the motives of Jclerman et al.. Discuss the article and not its editors. Incidentally, I'm not sure what self-serving interest you're accusing Jclerman of....? TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:40, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

No prob on the inserted reply. My opinion on the table inclusion has been that the pre-existing table at the front of the article (half-lives elapsed vs percentage remaining) is ideal for the article.

• As noted, the amount of radioactive material remaining is nondeterministic
• I find in-depth explanations of radioactive decay, and its particular variances from a standard half-life, to be best treated at radioactive decay (where such a discussion already exists)

So to my mind, it boils down to a case of not needing redundant (and suboptimally positioned) content. — Lomn | Talk 18:55, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ron Glass at Univ of Evansville

This is from http://www.dragoncon.org/people/glassr.html. I might even be information worth adding to the Ron Glass article.

Ron grew up the hard way in Evansville, Indiana but it was a childhood of strength and self reliance. His determination got him into the University of Evansville where he excelled academically and was inducted into several scholastic fraternities.

Later, following Ron’s national success, the university paid special tribute to his accomplishments. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, a commendation rarely given in the University’s long history.

He graduated with a double major receiving the B. A. in Drama and Literature. His out standing performances at the University’s Shankin Theatre let this gifted actor to a Theatre Communications Group audition. Ron received so many offers from Regionl/Repretory Theatres throughout the country that he set a record which remains unbroken

Also if you do a google search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ron+glass+university+of+evansville) several other sites listing the same information come up.--Twintone 20:11, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: Edit Warring:3RR appeal

Hi there. Please read about this situation more thoughtfully and try to see it from my perspective. Please do not accuse me of "wikilawyering"; I do not know the first thing about law and wwould be about as comfortable acting in a courtroom as a lawyer as My Cousin Vinny. There is an Administrator's noticeboard for "incidents" that call to be brought up. I was suspended for something that didn't happen. Again, I ask politely as possible - What will be done about the fact that I was wrongfully blocked for a 3RR instance that did not exist?JB196 19:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I am personally past this thing. But for some reason, ever since he returned from his previous block he has spent most of his time plotting to get me blocked for something I didn't do. [1]. I honestly Hope that he can move on and stop plotting revenge against whomever may disagree with him. I'm sorry if you got dragged into this mess too. My apologies . -- bulletproof ^3:16 01:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TWA

You need to provide citation for these no-name wrestlers who nobody has heard of proving that htey were trained at the TWA school.JB196 23:33, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I don't. I reverted your initial "cite every line on the page" version when I added the reference because it looked for all the world like a petty attempt at sneaky content deletion. I have since not edited your revised list of needed citations. — Lomn | Talk 15:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject American football?

Hey, someone brought it to my attention that you were thinking of starting a wikiproject on general football strategy articles. Well, I recently did start one up, and I think your expertise would be very helpful there. Please come check us out at: Wikipedia:WikiProject American football The idea is to help clean up the non-NFL football articles (mostly football strategy type articles). Please consider joining this project and helping out where possible! --Jayron32 20:05, 4 October 2006 (UTC)