User talk:Freederick

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[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Flameviper

I think that you hadn't seen this example. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:39, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comment

Please read my comment at [1]. Thanks. --Poeticbent  talk  18:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your Poland-related contributions

Hello Freederick! Thank you for your contributions related to Poland. You may be interested in visiting Portal:Poland/Poland-related Wikipedia notice board, joining our discussions and sharing your creations with us.

Appleseed (Talk) 21:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New article

Would you care to proofread Niedzica Castle for an ice breaker? Thanks. --Poeticbent  talk  22:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Your invaluable contribution to Niedzica Castle is much appreciated. I’m in the process of searching for additional reference in both, Polish and English. The new findings are quite intriguing actually. For example, Google automatic translation from Spanish of the biography of Micaela Bastidas, wife of Tupac Amaru II states: “Of the union three children were born: Hipólito, Mariano and Fernando…” (Source: Bolivariano Congress [2]) This would indicate that whether his daughter (wife of Sebastián Berzeviczy) was illegitimate, or she might have been his niece. Apparently, some women from Amaru family were exiled at the time of his gruesome execution by the Spaniards, after the failed assault on Cuzco. Here’s a quote from the paper by Claire Brewster [3]: “Bastidas, Túpac Amaru and their sons were captured. Spaniards condemned Bastidas to death... Cecilia Túpac Amaru [his sister] died in prison before her sentence was carried out, and several other women were exiled. ¹¹ (Source quoted: Querejazu, Chuquisaca, pp.401-404)” The wife of Sebastián Berzeviczy might have been one of those exiled women. It is fair to assume that under such circumstances providing further European sources is the only alternative. --Poeticbent  talk  20:22, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Please read my final comments at Talk:Niedzica Castle. Thank you again. --Poeticbent  talk  20:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kriging

I've originally visited the kriging page several months ago, looking for useful information (Specifically, I wanted to implement kriging in a Fortran program to interpolate unordered elevation data). The page struck me as being chaotic and going off at a tangent; little specific information on the kriging technique was provided, but there was a lot of vituperative wrangling against geostatistics.

I complained on the talk page and waited a long time for the article to improve. I revisited the article periodically, read the talk page and related user talk pages closely (JanWMerks and Merksmatrix in particular), and came to the conclusion that the reason the article is so wretched is because it is under continuous attack by a father-and-son team of cranks, who disrupt any constructive work with their own unsubstantiated agenda.

In order to give bona-fide editors like you more breathing space, I recommend that this matter be given due process under Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Specifically, I propose that a request for help be filed under AMA Requests for Assistance, as a first step. Perhaps the Advocate will be able to guide us in the steps that need to be taken to stop the disruptive behavior. My ultimate goal is Article probation. I am fed up with the cranks. Aren't you?

Please let me know what you think.

I sent this message to Hike395, Michael Hardy, Vsmith, SCmurky, Antro5, Nvj and Berland, as these names appear a number of times in the discussions. Freederick 16:10, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't think I've ever edited this one - although have removed some OR and self promo links from the geostatistics page. No expertise in the field, so I've not done much - but agree that there has been much crankism going on. Vsmith 16:51, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Ive been pretty active with the geostats article, not so much lately however. The geostats article is constantly being revised by these guys, but the issues they raise are repeated over and over. Kriging is an aspect of geostats which is simply a type of interpolation, the only difference from the distance-weighted algorithm is in the presence of statistical measures for standard deviation (standard distance), variance, and potential error; variance is presented as semi-variance due to the geographical aspects of spatial information. My view is that this argument is dead, no further attention needs to be paid to the issues that JanWMerks raises, as this logic may be applied to all statistics, in that they may be abused. We do not need dispute resolution, I've already spent loads of time attempting to find consensus... Instead, I propose you do what I've done with the geostats article, and add so much relevant material, that the controversy section provided by Jan is relegated to an insignificant portion of the end of the article. I still need to do lots of work on the geostats article though... SCmurky 02:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

“I've already spent loads of time attempting to find consensus...” That's my point exactly: you're wasting time in futile discussion and reverting, rather than doing constructive edits. In view of this statement (and many others in similar vein), further discussion is IMHO pointless. That's why I'm pushing towards Article probation, so that constructive work may be done instead. But in order to obtain article probation for the Merkses, due process must be followed, as I suggested above.

“I propose you do what I've done with the geostats article, and add so much relevant material...” I cannot, for the simple reason that I know very little about kriging. As a matter of fact, I was hoping to learn the basics of kriging from this very article, which is why this sordid stalemate infuriates me so much. Freederick 08:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Heim Theory Page

Hi Frederick. Thanks for the idea about Heim Theory. You are right about including more on the propulsion topic, as the link to Tajmar last year promises possibly major developments in propulsion and fundamental physics. So all this will have to be in there before considering the article for an award of any sort. I am a bit busy at the moment, so probably cannot do this myself soon - maybe around Easter would be the soonest. So if others want to try before then, well and good. --hughey 09:12, 24 March 2007 (UTC)