User talk:Peterhoneyman

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, and Welcome to the Wikipedia, Peterhoneyman! Thanks for the contributions over on the Controlled demolition hypothesis for the collapse of the World Trade Center‎ article. Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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[edit] Regarding Sandbox1

Personal sandboxes do not belong in the article namespace. They belong in your user namespace. I will restore and move it to User:Peterhoneyman/Sandbox1, and fix your user page to point there. Jesse Viviano 16:13, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

thanks -- looks like i dropped a slash or sump'n Peterhoneyman 16:56, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] "POV-pushing" in edit summaries

Hej Peter, I appreciate your work on the article, and agree with your reverts of Morton's addition. But I think we need to keep the edit summaries less inflamatory. It would be sufficient to justify your edit as re-establishing NPOV. WP:POVPUSH recommends against using the term. In know he really is transparent, but I have given up on Morton's use of words like "nut".--Thomas Basboll 09:20, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

'k, thanks Peterhoneyman 11:51, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seffin

It might be of interest for you to know that Seffins paper appears to be controversial in that no one can find any evidence it has actually been written. The Journal of Engineering Mechanics not only does not intend to publish anything by him but have no record of him. Also, here is a picture of Dr Keith Seffen. He looks a bit young to have written such an important paper. It might pay to remove the Seffen paragraph from the CD hypothesis article for now. What do you think? Wayne 08:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

i'm unhappy with the situation. i wrote him twice — and to cambridge's press office twice — but have received no reply. under the circumstances, i agree with you: seffen's paper is little more than an allegation and does not bear mentioning. Peterhoneyman 12:49, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested in this. :-)
Progressive Collapse of the World Trade Centre: a Simple Analysis. K. A. Seffen Wayne 01:47, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks from me also. I'll be looking at it over the next few days. Best,--Thomas Basboll 10:02, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm no engineer but it seems to me that Seffens paper is rather inadequate to explain anything other than that the towers fell and we know that already. All it does is confirm that the official theory is plausable without in any way ruling out the CD theory. A glaring error is that Seffen assumes the core was uniform, box columns 36"x16" and 4" thick for the towers entire height (he assumes equal resistance for every floor unless i misunderstood him), the lower 50 floors had columns 54"x26"x5" thick (8" thick at the lowest floors) with a 6" thick internal cross brace not to mention that the concrete walls were 17' (foot) thick. This should have meant increased resistance. I'm assuming you have engineering experience so what are your thoughts on the paper? Wayne 15:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
BTW. You might like this unusual photo of the towers as it shows the core construction clearly. Wayne 15:13, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
A follow up critque on Seffens paper: Cambridge University re seffen Paper Wayne (talk) 05:11, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New paper on 911

Thought you might like to read this. It has passed peer review and is expected to be published in around 3 months. Wayne (talk) 12:50, 31 January 2008 (UTC)