User talk:Richontaban
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[edit] Scale of Apparent Magnitude
Nearly one year ago, on October 29, 2006, the table titled Scale of Apparent Magnitude was deleted because the URL of the source could not be found. As of September 15, 2007, the table has been reinserted into the article, this time with a URL to Jim Kaler's THE 151 BRIGHTEST STARS. The fourth paragraph of Kaler's article provides at least some of the information and data shown in the table. I will personally search for additional sources (URLs) dealing with this exact subject and insert them onto the table. However, I perfectly welcome the contributions of other Wikipedia editers to the Scale of Apparent Magnitude data table, because I feel that this table would prove very beneficial to anyone curious about the various orders of magnitude and how they are distinguished from each other. --Richontaban 16:30, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Police Phobia
Just a couple of weeks ago, the article about Police Phobia was deleted for lack of sufficient and reliable sources. I understand that phobias are "irrational fears". Is it possible for anyone to be irrationally fearful or afraid of the police, or even the brutally oppressive secret police? Of course most people do not fear the police or secret police, but if the circumstances and conditions in a person's life merit so, it is possible for that person to fear the police just as much as strangers or women, or light. Astynomiaphobia (Greek αστυνομια astynomia "police" + φοβία phobia "fear") is a sixty-seven (67) year old name for what is occasionally regarded as an irrational fear of police and law enforcement; it is not a neologism. Policophobia has been used more as an informal, vulgar and humorous term; its not really a scientific term. The composer of the article should have written that there is much debate and controversy over the existence of a specific phobia for police and secret police, and that only very few psychologist have conducted original research on astynomiaphobia and that only a minority of psychologists and psychiatrists actually use the term in their respective fields. Once psychologists conduct more original research on the "specific phobia" of police, and begin publishing their findings in books and on the internet, then Wikipedia can finally carry an article about Police Phobia or Astynomiaphobia. Of course if such a specific phobia actually exists in its own right, then it would probably add to the burden of the government's prosecutors, because defendants would be able to use astynomiaphobia (fear of police) as a defense in court under certain circumstances. Richontaban 17:12, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Astynomiophobia
THan you for your interest in wikipedia. Unfortunately your article is deleted. Please review wikipedia's policies about editing and creating new articles. In particular, please review the requirements of citing your sources, which sources are considered admissible and no original essays, please. `'mikka 00:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, was selected for DYK!
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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 16:18, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] vaginal lubrication
What's with the edit to Talk:vaginal lubrication? Looks a lot like OR, and no-one appears to have asked about it. And the sources aren't particularly reliable. The whole thing looks kinda like an essay; my original reaction was to suspect vandalism or spamming the Spinrad book. WLU 19:30, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
- When I read the talk page on Vaginal Lubrication, I saw that many were writing sceptically about the presence of pyridine as a "toxic" and "carcenogenic" substance in vaginal secretion. Nobody seem to make a direct response to such people, so I decided to make as best a response as I could make, hoping to settle things. By the way, one of the sources was from gynecologist Dr. Elizabeth Stewart. Much of what I wrote was not original research. Richontaban 19:42, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, wikipedia is a how-to manual (incorporating answering questions) and talk pages are meant to be used to improve the main pages, not debate, discuss or respond to questions about the topic. Though there is a reference desk for that purpose. And the sources still aren't reliable, even if Dr. Stewart is a gynecologist. Plus, linking all that to pyridine would count as WP:OR. However, you do seem sincere, so I'll leave it on the talk page. WLU 19:48, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks WLU for informing me about the reference desk. I'll use it on a seldom basis to ask or answer questions from now on. Richontaban 20:10, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
