User talk:Dialectric

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I have chosen to clear the contents of my talk page. If you have constructive critisism or wish to discuss my edits or comments, I am happy to listen. I understand and value the importance of talk page archives for articles, but believe that the same standard of archiving does not apply to user talk pages for a number of reasons, chief among them that the talk page is not "research for an article." If you really want to see past discussions, you may use the history. The Talk page guidelines are Guidelines and thus, by definition "never mandatory". wgh 16:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] WPCD

Hi. Just to say the the WPCD 2 which you helped with is now browsable at http://schools-wikipedia.org and will be downloadable tomorrow evening. Thanks again. --BozMo talk 11:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] factory farming/intensive farming

Hi, I noticed you had some thoughts on intensive farming discussion page. There's a deadlock in progress over a plan to merge it and factory farming and industrial agriculture (which I'm against I should state). As this affects intensive farming perhaps you'd like to contribute. NathanLee 19:24, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks

For the link on the searches. We do want to improve this aspect and I will have a look

--BozMo talk 09:53, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Privatization in India

...I know that the article wasn't a copyright infringement when you wrote it, but all the revisions following yours were so I tagged it as such. Seeing as the original article consisted of one sentence, I imagine you could write it again.--User:Dycedarg 09:21, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

-- Thanks, its not one of my priorities, but you're welcome to write it again. Dialectric (talk) 18:29, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Schools WP

Thanks for the comments, keep going. I will make sure I have been through them all before the final cut (which is going to be mid April). --BozMo talk 17:09, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] New front page discussion re: wikipedia selection 2008

Certainly be happy to look at any mock up, and agree what is there isn't great. The other hand made pages (subject pages, index pages) also could do with some work. The 2008/9 version is planned out end May with one addition which is "bus tours" where for pre programmed topics (say: "Tudor Britain") a little animated bus with take you through a series of articles clicking on the link from each one to the next. So we perhaps should add a bus stop... --BozMo talk 20:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:Cat4_out.jpg

The above is a first attempt at a mockup for the subject page.

  • I considered using the icons from the Wikipedia:Version_0.7 / wikipedia 1.0 project, but they are somewhat inconsistent.
  • the current version only has 9/10 subjects vs. the selection project's 15. Wikipedia 1.0 project uses 10:
    • 1 Arts
    • 2 Language and literature
    • 3 Philosophy and religion
    • 4 Everyday life
    • 5 Society and social sciences
    • 6 Geography
    • 7 History
    • 8 Applied sciences and technology
    • 9 Mathematics
    • 10 Natural sciences
  • this is just a photoshop mockup, but I could make an xhtml if needed.

Image:Version w headers.jpg

  • here is a possible alternate design for the front page. The text content is unfinished/filler taken from 2007 page.
  • I also have alternate versions w/o the 'buttons', which would be done in css rather than graphics.
  • both ideas are definitely open to changes/suggestions.

Dialectric (talk) 14:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Olduvai theory

Were you aware of the drought related problems affecting hydro-electrical supply? Worldwide Energy Shortages is updated daily with links to news articles listing many of the countries with energy shortages and the causes for them. You have to admit that all the evidence is suggesting that the peak oil and olduvai theories are correct. - Shiftchange (talk) 03:20, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


I don't have a geology background, so can't make an informed judgement about 'peak oil' theory, though it seems plausible/likely. Olduvai theory, on the other hand is highly speculative, and makes predictive claims about a system (global economics) of massive complexity using limited data. As such, it seems incorrect to me, but I guess we'll see in 20 years, after the massive die-off. You might want to check out the life-boat hypothesis - environmental scientists were making similar predictions in the 1970s about die-offs resulting from exceeding agricultural carrying capacity.

The link you've posted is certainly interesting, but power shortages, like food shortages, are more often the result of breakdowns and inefficiencies in supply systems, including governance, infrastructure, etc, which are unrelated to how much power, or food, is actually available globally.


Dialectric (talk) 12:49, 27 May 2008 (UTC)