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[edit] A contributor of character - Stephan Shulz

An editor, Stephan Schulz (talk) - a person I was in the middle of a heated argument with — cleaned up the mess that I created in archiving my page (I put this notice on his page too, as a thank you).

This is an excellent example of how contributors can control their emotions and remain civil and friendly in the midst of (sometimes) emotional circumstances - a lesson I take to heart as well. I just wanted to publicly thanks Stephan for showing his excellent character in helping me out when it would have been easy for him to ignore the situation. Instead he took the time to clean up my mess in a kind and friendly manner. Kudos to a good man. Thank you, Stephan. :-)

[edit] Global warming

I will do it.

Give me all the scources you have, and I will put them with mine and get to work on the article.


We will need to do some convincing on the talk page of global warming, or it will be deleted again.

Kratanuva66 (talk) 17:15, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Good idea. I'll do what I can to help. Mentalhead (talk) 21:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

This will be a waste of your efforts. Stick to editing intelligent design or creationism :) Count Iblis (talk) 20:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Who knows, they may come up with something useful. Let's wait and see. Raymond Arritt (talk) 00:40, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Iblis, Wiki is a forum in which all persons can contribute, therefore nothing is a "waste of [our] efforts". However, I do appreciate your concern.Supertheman (talk) 21:12, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

go to my user page and click on "sandbox" to work on the article. Kratanuva66 (talk) 22:54, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Supertheman! Just a technical note: You have created your archive at User talk:Supertheman:Archive. That is not technically in your user talk space (but in that of a hypothetical User:Supertheman:Archive. You may want to move it to User talk:Supertheman/Archive (note the : -> / replacement). --Stephan Schulz (talk) 10:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Haha, thank you my friend. Whew, that one's got me vaclempt. So I just do the move, and label it User talk:Supertheman/Archive? Sorry for my ignorance, I am *very* tired and just don't have the time or energy to figure this one out. Thanks for reaching out, you can't know how much I appreciate that. Supertheman (talk) 11:23, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I also have a fear that then the new archive won't have a redirect back to this talk page, but rather to the incorrect move page. Thoughts? Supertheman (talk) 11:42, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I made the move and adaptions. As far as I can tell, everything should be ok now, including all the forward and backward links. Good night (assuming it is night in your part of the world now). --Stephan Schulz (talk) 11:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh my goodness, thank you my friend! You took time out of your day to do that? Wow, I really appreciate that. Whew, I'm clueless, huh? Oh gosh, nighttime? LOL! I was up *all night* preparing some techical papers for a city code meeting on stair proposals and (stupidly) getting caught up in the whole global warming debacle (won't do that again, I can tell you). Again, thanks, that was nice! Supertheman (talk) 13:35, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please consider taking the AGF Challenge

I would like to invite you to consider taking part in the AGF Challenge which has been proposed for use in the RfA process [1] by User: Kim Bruning. You can answer in multiple choice format, or using essay answers, or anonymously. You can of course skip any parts of the Challenge you find objectionable or inadvisable.--Filll (talk) 17:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Helping out

I'm in. I don't have much time, but when I can, I'll help. I'm afraid I'm not a very good editor, but I think that we can do something to fix the article. We just have to source it so no one can remove what we add for random reasons. I think that we might have some trouble with it (disputes and edit wars), but I'll try my best to help out. What do you need me to do? - ђαίгснгм таιќ 03:25, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Louis Hissink

Since I've archived that old bit of my talk page now, let me answer here. Read [2]. In this case, "being nuts" should be read as "being oblivious to the most basic scientific (and historic) facts". It does not get much simpler than the conservation laws, and the change from Julian to Gregorian calendars is very well understood and not at all related to some spherical acrobatics of the Earth. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 23:02, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm... so now you arbitrarily assign a diagnosis of "just plain nuts" to a scientist that has some rather curious conclusions about the intention of the switch to the Gregorian calender. And here I thought we based those kinds of diagnoses on guidelines in the DSM-III R. I've never seen a better example of an ad hominem attack in my life. Thanks, at least for that. Supertheman (talk) 23:25, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Did you miss the part about wiggling the Earth axis around? Or the sun changing direction in ancient Egypt? Here goes all of Physics 101..."limited to Newtonian mechanics" indeed. I don't know if you are aware of it, but the difference between Julian and Gregorian calendars is simply due to the fact that Julius Caesar assumed a year that is slightly to long for his calendar. By Gregor's time, the difference had accumulated. He found a more exact approximation and reset the calendar to match the seasons. Nothing wiggly there...in fact, the change confirms that days and years have remained very stable over the last 2000 years. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 23:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I didn't miss anything, I read the whole thing, including Hissink's responses. I still don't understand how this relegates the man to "just plain nuts". I'm not sure about you, but I've said a few things in my life I regret. A few stupid things that ended up coming back to haunt me. As of 2008, I still haven't been institutionalized, much to the chagrin of certain folks I've debated with over the years. Try being on the unpopular side of something once, or being the only person in a room holding a certain position. Sometimes in my life I feel I'm surrounded by atheists and I forget that the grand majority of the world's peoples believe in God. It's just that my sample is very, very skewed. Being under continual attack — in that skewed sample — can sometimes lead to what I call "survival behaviors" if you're not careful. I teach classes on apologetics and classes to "seekers" on Christianity. I had to learn *long* ago how to control those behaviors, and how to keep balance and sanity when I'm drained. Perhaps Hissink needs to learn a few of these control mechanisms himself, but I don't think he's ready for the rubber room, yet... despites the vociferous opinion of his acerbic detractors. Supertheman (talk) 06:43, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi - I went ahead and put up the revised userpage that you worked on for me. Word is that it displays well in Safari and Firefox. Thanks again for working on it - I appreciate it. MastCell Talk 20:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

That's super! I'll stop by and look at it. You're very welcome. Supertheman (talk) 06:37, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Boxofficemojo

Boxofficemojo rankings only deal with films of that type since the start of the site... in the 1980s. It cannot be used for sweeping statements about rankings for all time.We have to respect the source's limits. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 12:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

If we specified "12 highest ranking documentary since 1982", you might have a point. We aren't. We are making an unqualified statement. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:30, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

It's a moot point now, as I've qualified this in the article now. Go on over to the An Inconvenient Truth article and make this case, Shoemaker. Also, the information concerning "adjusted for inflation" is absurd. This info is stated on Box Office Mojo, and elsewhere in the Expelled article, those qualifiers do not need to be in the opening, summary paragraph. Supertheman (talk) 04:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)