User talk:Olaf g

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[edit] June 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. However, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Gunther Teubner, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. IdeologyTalk to me £ 15:22, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Hermit! Thanks for your kind advice. However, I would have appreciated it, if you had read the article thoroughly and already given online-sources before reverting edits for rather formalistic reasons. From the article it is almost self-evident that Teubner ist also a Legal Scholar. I only added the fact to give the complete information already in the introductory sentence. By the way congratulations that you already did 1000 mainspace entries. --Olaf g 19:11, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
What differences does it make if I had 100 edits or 10000 edits? From my viewpoint, the information you added goes against WP:BLP in general, and more specifically WP:BLP#Remove_unsourced_or_poorly_sourced_contentious_material. It also fails WP:V. I think the lead sentence in WP:V explains what I'm trying to convey: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth." You also said,"Given online-sources." Their isn't any references except for a simple external link. I think in general the article fails WP:N. I will remove my note above, but unless this article follows the guidelines of WP:N, I will nominate the article for deletion. Thanks! IdeologyTalk to me £ 23:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
The problem with WP:N isn't that the source you gave isn't reliable, the problem is that their is only one source. Feel free to edit as you wish, and I don't plan on nominating the article for deletion; it isn't work it. Cheers! --Wikihermit(Speak) £ 19:59, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

There is no Wikipedia rule for prescribing the sufficient number of sources. For a stub one source may suffice. But talking about rules, the 5 most important ones are: Wikipedia: Be bold in updating articles, Perfection is not required, Wikipedia: Ignore all rules, Wikipedia: Use common sense, and Wikipedia: There is no common sense. --Olaf g 21:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] using Wikipedia to study meme transmission

Your recent posts to Talk:Meme were not directly (or, indeed, remotely) relevant to the associated article, and I have deleted the section. Please read and follow the talk page guidelines governing the proper use of a talk page as a forum for discussing improvements to an article, not a general purpose forum for material related to the topic of an article.

As a further point, I would like to bring to your notice the "Show preview" button available next to the "Save page" button for every edit window. This button allows you to see how an edit will look before taking it "live." Reading through your words as they will actually appear may help you find wording with which you are happy without clogging the edit history of the page and the watchlists of interested editors (your target audience for your canvassing).

I would also encourage you carefully to consider your study design (assuming good faith that it exists). The sole commonality shared by editors of a particular article is the fact that they edit that particular article. This does not correspond to any definition of "cohort" with which I am familiar, and seems singularly uncontrolled even for sociological research. - Eldereft ~(s)talk~ 20:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Dear Eldereft, thank you for your advice. I know that it was probably the wrong place to choose a Wikipedia Talk page for my study. I will try to follow my interests about memes at a more appropriate place. What do you mean by "even for sociological research". I missed that point. By the way, did you like the joke? I mean about Dawkins? --Olaf g (talk) 19:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
In physics, I can routinely control sample composition to parts per billion, and experiments can be repeated under precisely controlled conditions. Neither of these obtain when real people and their complex interactions are being studied. Best of luck exploring your interests. - Eldereft ~(s)talk~ 19:39, 21 February 2008 (UTC)