User talk:Solemnavalanche

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[edit] Weasel words

What a pleasure it was to see your comment on the "weasel words" rule. Thanks for adding it! --ESP 01:06, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Fashionable Nonsense

I've left this message because I noticed you engaging in a discussion with users who are attempting to spread popularization of the viewpoint stated in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's book Fashionable Nonsense and related events. I've begun an attempt to create a repository that will attempt to, ultimately, remove this misinformed position from an ideally-neutral Wikipedia, except to acknowledge the viewpoint in its own context.

This attempt isn't going so well, so I'm contacting people like you whom I've seen discussing the topic earlier than I've intended. See both the intended meta-article and its discussion page for details.

Fashionable Nonsense is not a scholarly work

If you're interested in contributing in any way, please feel free to do so. If not, thank you for your other contributions to Wikipedia.

VermillionBird 00:54, 2005 Mar 6 (UTC)

[edit] Metaliest Metal of all Metals

I just wanted to announce, embarrassedly, that I was very nearly taken in by a bit of vandalism claiming that kevlar is metal. If the vandal hadn't later added "it is the metaliest metal of all metals," I would have been going around thinking, oh, there's some technical definition of metal that doesn't necessarily apply just to what we normally call metal -- it's like "Lewis Acid."

I now recognize it as a particularly hilarious example of vandalism. It's in the history of Aramid for anyone interested. (Kevlar was also vandalized.) Solemnavalanche 16:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

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