User:Sedonafengshui
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Contents |
[edit] RE:Your comments
The statement "please discuss changes and reach a consensus. using TW" does not mean that you should actually use Twinkle to discuss the changes and reach consensus, it just means that I used Twinkle to add the protection to the page. All that needs to be done is regular discussion on the talk page. If you posted a comment to the talk page, then see if there is a reply and work to find common ground where everyone agrees on the content that should be added. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk ♦ contribs) @ 03:36, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you.
[edit] May 2008
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Feng Shui. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution.
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Feng shui, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Feng shui was changed by Sedonafengshui (u) (t) deleting 13608 characters on 2008-05-28T01:03:59+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 01:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] The burden of proof is on you.
The items that I find questionable are unencyclopedic and not acceptable in Wikipedia articles.
They fail Wikipedia's core content policies:
[edit] "Folk Feng Shui"
The section on archaeology has a lot of qualified primary sources. Your edits don't agree with that material, and your source is a book that is not qualified even as a tertiary source. Why didn't you add material from academic sources? Why do you insist on the validity of what Wikipedia deems unacceptable sources?
[edit] "Three Schools"
Why do you think there are three schools? Why do you think Shen Dao isn't a school? I challenge you to take the techniques listed in the article and categorize them according to your "school" system, and justify your choices.
[edit] The "invalidity" of the compass
Why must this content be only on the feng shui page? Why not the geomagnetism page, the north magnetic pole page, the compass page and the Luopan page? And you link to your feng shui business website! The impression is that you are hoping to drive your business by posting this content.
- Spam is unacceptable.
- Original research (excerpts from your unsourced article on the compass) is unacceptable -- all the more because it appears to be an [original synthesis].
- Unsourced ideas from the fringe are unacceptable except in very narrow circumstances, which your usage does not merit.
[edit] Challenge #1
I searched on Highwire and Google Scholar. I looked in the encyclopedia. I looked on Wikipedia. I looked at books on the compass, and on geomagnetism. Nowhere except on fringe websites do I find anyone who states flatly that compasses are unusable for the reasons you mention. Where did this idea originate?
[edit] Challenge #2
Consider Suunto and Silva. If the compass is useless as a precision instrument, why is there a multibillion-dollar global compass industry?
[edit] Challenge #3
According to the right-hand rule in physics, the north magnetic pole of Earth is at the south geographic pole. It's just a convention to call the geographic north pole the geomagnetic north pole. This is well stated in the article for the north magnetic pole on Wikipedia, if you'd care to read it. A compass aligns to the local geomagnetic field, which varies in a complex manner over the Earth's surface, as well as over time. (Quoted from the same article.)
Because a compass indicates local magnetic field intensity and dip, I'd like you to explain how the compass is invalid due to fluctuations in the magnetic pole in the northern hemisphere. Then please explain why you believe traditional feng shui use of the compass is at variance with what science knows about how a compass works.
[edit] Challenge #4
Airport runways are generally numbered according to their magnetic heading (the takeoff direction it is "pointing towards"). The runway number is the whole number nearest one-tenth the magnetic azimuth of the centerline of the runway, measured clockwise from the magnetic north. You say the compass can't be trusted for degree readings. How do you explain the presence of the compass in the design of airport runways?