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[edit] Deep ecology

Hi Spencerk! Thanks for the contributions from me too. But I've put a comment on your recent edit to Deep ecology at its talk page. Maybe you'd like to amplify there on the criticism you added. Regards -- JimR 05:44, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi again, Spencer, and thanks for the comment on my talk page (but remember to sign with four tildes). Thanks in particular for your generous temporary removal of the criticism. You've given me cause for thought. You might like to look at the extract Thinking Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold (who predated the term "Deep ecology" but seems to have been influential on the idea), and also the reviews [1] of a book named after Leopold's phrase. Perhaps these references might help to formulate your criticism. I see what you mean — it may be presumption, or anthropomorphism, for a deep ecologist to claim to "think like a mountain". I'll try to get my own ideas on this in better order and then put something on Talk:Deep ecology. Regards -- JimR 11:26, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Argumentum ad populum

Hi, I've redirected the article as per the original discussion. Thanks for your contribution (btw, you can sign your name with ~~~~). Shawnc 21:47, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Renaming is when you use the "move" tab on top of each page to simply change the article's name. The benefit of this is that it retains and moves all past edits to the new name. However in cases like this where the target name already exists, "move" requires an administrator to delete the old page first (no one has done this yet). Shawnc 07:25, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sources for International Policy Statement

Hello, good work on International Policy Statement, and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. What websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to International Policy Statement? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 06:01, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SETI@Home

Please provide the full citations for your additions, in the References section.

Incidentally, the ETI virus scare seems to have been written by someone completely outside their domain of expertise, as the random noise from a resistor connected to the antenna terminals would produce almost the same risk. I can't use that as it would be original research, but there is a SETI League published paper] that does challenge this theory, and I'll add that later. --David Woolley 08:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re : Crying While Eating

These details you have provided should have been mentioned on the VfD entry itself rather than my talkpage. I can't simply overturn the decision as there is a strong consensus to delete, but you may wish to consider Deletion review. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 02:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template: Anti-consumerism

Aloha. What references did you use as justification for your template? I'm in fact checking mode, and I'm trying to figure out why Ethical consumerism is listed as "anti-consummerism". AFAIK, every consumer is to some degree, an ethical consumer, whether they are aware of it or not. —Viriditas | Talk 09:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cool (aesthetic)

I have no idea why you renamed the article; it made no sense. The title has been returned to Cool (aesthetic). It's backwards for a specific title to redirect to a more general one. Further, the way it was left after you effected the title change (which may have been the result of previous renamings), the talk page for "cool (aesthetic)" redirected to the talk page for Cool: African philosophy) -- which certainly didn't work. That's been fixed. deeceevoice 12:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Loch Ness

Man, I'm impressed by the speed that you guys tackled that "Incident at Loch Ness" article I tagged. It's way better now, really good job. SchnappM 03:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I believe the article does need the commentary, but not in the "plot summary" section. Perhaps a section for commentary, not a point-of-view inside the summary. I would do it right now but my Fantasy Baseball league is in the middle of an auction. If you want, however, I can do it tomorrow or Saturday. Miguel Cervantes 03:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Tre-Arrow-19.jpg

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I deleted this image. I could find nothing on the source web site to indicate material was released under Creative Commons. If you can provide a link to any page that confirms this, we can get the image back under this license. -Nv8200p talk 16:05, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Evaporation

There's a mention of evaporation and the water cycle in the intro. The links therein ideally would explain this in more detail. Perhaps this is sufficent for your purposes? Cheers, Daniel Collins 22:46, 24 March 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Tre Arrow

Hi, I changed the reasoning on the prod to be less jargony. Just so you know, Cruft is semi-official Wikipedia jargon for these things, but you're right, I should have been more explicit. Also see Wikipedia:Fancruft, this may clear things up.--Deville (Talk) 00:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] self-consciousness

My wish is for you to merge the similarities of the two articles but leave the differences. My overall objection is if you merge too much and then try to delete one of the articles. Discussion on the page indicates both articles can exist as distinct topics. But there needs to be time for the other article to develop. Peace. ॐ Metta Bubble puff 00:28, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cool (aesthetic)

My approach to the article is no different from the approach others would take. The text I deleted was not done wholesale. With each edit I made, I made the appropriate corrresponding edit note. The contentions in the article were not cited, and in one case, the source was completely unencyclopedic and not worthy of citation. In another instance, the material was completely off-point -- namely insertion of information on traditional African societies in an article on pop culture. The outside link at the bottom of the page was not only obscene, but utter garbage -- presumably inserted as a prank/vandalism. I've applied precisely the same standards I have come to understand, through the discussion of the AfD for Cool (African philosophy), is now the standard at Wikipedia. In fact, the frivolous source cited was nowhere near the caliber of source materials completely discounted in the now deleted article. I'm applying editorial standards equally across the board. Vague, unsubtantiated language is unacceptable -- and so is off-point article content. What remains of the article, quite coincidentally, is the language I wrote defining pop culture cool. Ironic -- ain't it? Deeceevoice 14:52, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re:fair use image

But the template to which the image belonged, Template:Anti-consumerism, is being used on other articles besides Adbusters. Wikipedia:Fair use states: "Fair use images should only be used in the article namespace. Used outside article space, they are often enough not covered under the fair use doctrine. They should never be used on templates (including stub templates and navigation boxes) or on user pages."—jiy (talk) 21:43, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. Even if it isn't, you can still probably include it in the Adbusters article itself (just not the template) and justify it under the doctrine of fair use.—jiy (talk) 07:56, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Co2 Bomb

I see you made an edit to the CO2 Bomb page. Would you want to work together in creating that page? -Chile 19:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Postmodernism

Hi, thanks for getting in touch. I think the obvious point is that at least the reader can now get a simple idea of some basic concepts of postmodernism through the bullet points, though it is an unconventional way to start. I haven't done a lot of work on it - really just stopping it from deteriorating (even further) by removing duff edits. To be honest, I'm not prepared to work on this article, as I think it's a big job and it's not one that interests me very much. However, I would certainly encourage you to - be bold! Seriously, if you can go through the whole thing and make it more accessible and understandable for the general reader, that would be great, and I would certainly support that. Tyrenius 23:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, found your page on Postmodernism in language using random. I am new to Wiki editing. The second sentence is very long and I can't make sense of it. Is "form" a verb or a noun? thanks Timb66 01:45, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bait and Switch

Hello, I left a question on your Bait and Switch entry under the discussions page, if you or anyone else could please give me a definitive answer, you would have my thanks!

[edit] Internalism and externalism

in the section you wrote about skepticism the same link occurs four times, in a manner that suggests that there should have been four different ones. would you try again to link to the different pages?

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Terrific looking trophy.jpg

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[edit] Thank you

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[edit] Hi!

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[edit] Slow light=fringe physics

Why did you tag slow light as fringe physics? --ScienceApologist 12:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Plane ride test

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[edit] Bushed (poem)

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[edit] Renaming articles

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[edit] Yoga poll

Hi! There's some discussion on whether using "asana", "yogasana" or "yoga asana" as the article title. If you are acquainted with the subject, you are invited to drop your opinion at Talk:Yogasana#Opinion Poll on this article's name. Davin7 09:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fideism

Hi Spencer. When you inserted the "History" and "Theories of truth" sections into Fideism it left the next statement, "This sort of fideism ...", without an indication of what sort of fideism is referred to. I think it was referring to the last paragraph before "History" but I am not sure how to tie it back to that. You would be a better person to attempt that. cheers Nurg 06:16, 29 October 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] responsibility to protect Iraq

Hi Spencerk,

there's a template marking a missing citation for Bush invoking the responsibility to protect for the Iraq war. This claim has apparently been in the article since you created it -- can you provide a citation? I don't remember Bush saying this and can't find anything about it on the Web.

Thanks,

Joriki (talk) 12:55, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] New evil demon

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If there is more to this article than I've been able to find please don't hesitate to cleanup the article and add references and such. Thanks Jasynnash2 (talk) 15:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citations!

You created utility monster in 2007, but didn't provide any citations. That's the first thing you should do when you create an article. If it doesn't have any refs, you shouldn't bother uploading it. I doubt this topic is notable enough for an article myself (see the talk page), but even if it was you should still provide citations! Richard001 (talk) 11:44, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Surely if you wrote the article you must have got this information from somewhere. Can't you provide at least one source? Moving this information into another article will not do anything to solve the references problem. Richard001 (talk) 05:14, 18 May 2008 (UTC)