User talk:Joel Mc
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Good work on the "humanitarian principles" article. Be careful to use sources and not stray into the dreaded "Original Research". Thanks for your help! yandman 10:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Disabling link to www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm
Hi. I responded to your question -- see my talk page. --A. B. (talk) 03:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hä??
Was there a reason for this? I don't really mind, just curious.--Weltweltwelt 16:23, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Weltweltwelt. Not sure about your question. This is what I posted on the talk page on 24 April 2007 after I followed your link to Granta:
- Thanks for the reference. I was able to download it today. Fascinating.--Joel Mc 09:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)--Joel Mc 07:13, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
You erased my last edit when you posted:
- I saved the article on my harddrive. Give me a message if you need it!--Weltweltwelt 07:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
but nevermind.--Weltweltwelt 07:48, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- So sorry, it is a mystery to me how it happened. I reverted. I must stop being in a hurry. Thanks for what I found to be an interesting article, certainly to be followed up on. Cheers--Joel Mc 09:51, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- Alright. I myself am kind of new to this. And thank you for the flowers!--Weltweltwelt 20:45, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Help?
If you have ten minutes: could you maybe read this article I just created and check it for any grammar, vocabulary etc. mistakes? I nominated it for the "did you know" page. I guess he is kind of interesting, also for you to read. --Weltweltwelt 14:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
- I have just seen this (coming back from a dinner party) and am most happy to check it out in the next day or so. I am off on a trip tomorrow and will try to look at it before I leave. --Joel Mc 20:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
- I posted on your user page, but here it is again:
[edit] Klaus Traube
Hear is my promised response. The rather unusal nature of this response--usually I just would have gone directly to the page--is due to the fact that during the next two weeks I am in a small village in So. France and have difficulty (so far) getting access to an ADSL line. I am putting below my lightly edited version--you really don't need much correcting of grammar or spelling etc. You can just cut and paste from it. I have indicated questions between €€€s.
My short experience tells me that you will probably find the article tagged by a bot to "wikify" it. As far as I can tell this has mainly to due with putting sections and categories. (You could go to earlier versions of the pages I put up: either SCHR or Red Cross NGO Code of Conduct--I am not sure which was was the first--to see what I did to take the tag off.)
As promised, I found the article interesting and look forward to more of the same.
| Klaus Traube | |
| Born | 1928 Hannover, Germany |
|---|---|
| Education | mechanical engineer |
| Occupation | manager, author, professor for energy-economics and -politics |
Klaus Traube (born 1928) is a former manager in the German nuclear power industry and today one of its leading opponents. He also became known as a victim of an illegal eavesdropping operation by the BND because he was falsely suspected of sympathizing with terrorism, notably the Red Army Fraction.
Klaus Traube was born in 1928 in Hannover, the son of a Jewish dentist. In 1938 his father, a social democrat, committed suicide because he could no longer bear the terror of the National Socialists. Klaus Traube had to leave the Gymnasium he attended because of his Jewish background. Towards the end of World War II at the age of 17 he himself was briefly put into an Arbeitslager (labor camp).[1]
After the war Traube stayed in Germany despite his bad experiences and studied mechanical engineering (Maschinenbau) and romance studies. He started his career at the German AEG where he quickly rose to become director of the department for nuclear power. After living abroad for some time he (he worked for General Dynamics in San Diego) he returned and became head of Interatom, a company that was a member of the Kraftwerk Union, part of the Siemens conglomerate. Among other things he was responsible for the developement of the German fast breeder-project in Kalkar.[2]
Originally a proponent of nuclear power the report of the Club of Rome, Limits to Growth, in 1972 made him slowly change his view. Because of his resulting contacts with the student movement in Germany, which at that time was slowly becoming more militant, and especialy because of contacts with the Red Army Fraction, the BND (the German secret service) started to monitor him intensively. Because he was suspected to have passed secret information to opponents of nuclear power he was labeled the "biggest security threat of Western Germany" ("größtes Sicherheitsproblem der Bundesrepublik")€€€by whom???€€€. In a covert operation called "Operation Müll" ("operation trash") the BND in 1975 planted a number of wiretaps in Traube's appartement and later informed his employer who as a result fired him. This illegal operation was uncovered in 1977 by the newspaper "Der Spiegel" and led to the demission of the then minister of the interior Werner Maihofer one year later. Traube was cleared of all charges[3]. The "Three Mile Island" incident in 1979 finally transformed him into an open opposition to nuclear power[4].
Since than he has been one of the most prominent and influential critics of nuclear power. Traube does not believe that the operation of nuclear power plants is economically feasible or that it is possible to overcome the security risks. Also the construction of fast breeders, that are essential for a long term use of nuclear power, is in his view too difficult to be realistic[5]. He is a strong supporter of renewable energy. During the 80s Traube has achieved iconic status among German opponents to nuclear power. From 1990 to 1997 he was director of the institute for energy-economics and -politics at the University of Bremen[6].
- Thank you a lot. I integrated that in the article yesterday! I didn't find out who exactly called him "biggest security threat". I think it was the BND, but removed it because i'm not sure. --Weltweltwelt 11:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References
- ^ SWR (2006) Porträt von Klaus Traube
- ^ 2000 Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award
- ^ Lauschaffäre Traube - German wikipedia
- ^ Sperfeld, Stefan (2007) Atomkritiker Klaus Traube zu Gast im Haus der Natur. Märkische Allgemeine
- ^ Traube, Klaus (2005) Was wird aus der Atomkraft? in: Natur und Kosmos, May
- ^ Klaus Traube - Kurzbiografie
[edit] Image:Dachau cold water immersion.jpg
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[edit] Holocaust dispute
Thanks, Dreadstar, for slowing this thing down. This is the second time I had to wade my way through a huge number of small edits, done seconds apart. It is not conducive to a reflective response. --Joel Mc 20:30, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
- You're welcome Joel! I'm glad I could help out. I've been trying to get Hanzo to understand that edits with a large number of changes, as well as throwing a slew of fast-paced smaller ones is not the most desirable editing style..especially on high-profile or contentious articles. And edit-warring to keep disputed edits in...well, that's absolutely terrible. This is not the only article he's been doing this on, check this out. And hey, thanks again for the supportive words..those kinds of battles can wear ya down! – Dreadstar † 01:32, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Buddhism" Article Dispute
Hallo Joel Mc. I really like what you have written on the "Buddhism" Discussion Page. I totally agree with you. Thanks for saying what you said. Stay well and happy. Warm wishes to you. From Tony. TonyMPNS 18:49, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your note
Hi Joel, it might be a good idea to e-mail Mike Godwin to ask why he made that edit. Certainly, we need sources for contentious BLP material. Sometimes, with BLPs who are borderline notable, we've been known to remove certain sources, because they paint the person in such a poor light. But where the subject is a public person, and there is a lot of other material known about him to balance any negativity, and where the negative material has been so prominently published by very reliable sources, the sources really ought to be included so the reader can learn more. But Mike is likely to have reasons we're unaware of for having made that edit, so in your shoes, I would ask him offwiki. SlimVirgin (talk)(contribs) 18:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Holocaust
Would you be willing to work with me to clean up the section on non-Jewish victims? My literary skills are in need of improvement. I just crunch numbers for a living.--Woogie10w (talk) 15:51, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ruud Lubbers
Yes, this has been protected for too long. I will make enquiries. Rich Farmbrough, 10:28 12 March 2008 (GMT).
[edit] Blacklisted Cathar link
I don't know why it was blacklisted, but there should have been something about it in the blacklist archive. I'd assume that it is because of the poor referencing, though. MSJapan (talk) 17:26, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
