User:William M. Connolley/For me

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This is my page of notes & stuff.

Wikipedia:Scientific point of view. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Wikipedia:What is a troll. Wikipedia:Edit war. Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide. Wikipedia:Complete bollocks / WP:BALLS

Wikipedia:No original research

To speak to another with consideration, to appear before him with decency and humility, is to honour him; as signs of fear to offend. To speak to him rashly, to do anything before him obscenely, slovenly, impudently is to dishonour. Leviathan, X.

My first RFC: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/William_M._Connolley. I won it, good. Now there is an RFA between me, Cortonin and JG Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change dispute. I won this, I think... well they are gone and I'm still here... This has now been clarified: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change dispute 2: The one revert parole placed upon William M. Connolley was an unnecessary move, and is hereby revoked. Thats nice; and they even got the decision in just before the parole was due to expire :-)

An ANI thread

Contents

[edit] Climate type stuff

Looks like going down on VFD: User:William M. Connolley/Global warming skeptic

[edit] Opinion


[edit] Workspace for refs on attribution of climate change and others


[edit] Compliments / Endorsements

Naturally enough, I tend to end up talking more with people who I am trying to agree wordings with, which (on controversial pages) tends to be people who disagree with me. So its nice sometimes to have people who do agree with me. The RFC especially brought this out.

  • William M. Connolley is widely viewed in Wikipedia as being highly knowledgeable in the field he is writing about (the arbcomm: [1])
  • a professional scientist who has adopted a couple of controversial topics - areas within his considerable expertice. He does a good job keeping the articles focused on the science ([2] Vsmith)
  • Keep up the good work WMC ([3] G-Man)
  • His knowledge of the science related to climate change is comprehensive... I would like to commend William for his excellent work on Wikipedia ([4] Sunray)
  • he's been struggling to present accurate and neutral text ([5] Mel Etitis)
  • WMC tries to keep articles readable and focused, and very much tries to keep nonsense out of them. I am very glad that someone does this necessary work ([6] Stephan Schulz)
  • always willing to discuss disputes, and makes concessions where he feels it is appropriate ([7] Graft)
  • Thank you for your recent edit [8] to this article. That is exactly the kind of editing that Wikipedia needs more of to nip this sort of dispute in the bud, before it becomes a problem for the articles and editors. Keep it up! Cheers --Ryan Delaney
  • Connolley has done such amazing work... Jimbo Wales, reported in Nature: see [9]

[edit] Stolen things

  • Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25. User:Func
  • There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, those who read binary and those who don't. (ditto)
  • Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad. User:SOPHIA

[edit] Articles that really ought to exist, but don't

  • Great Pyramid of Geezer - to be modelled on Great Pyramid of Giza, but would be about this pyramid built by some old geezer. Every time GPoG comes up on my watchlist I think this...
  • Irish hypothesis - an even more cockeyed version of Iris hypothesis

[edit] Things that really shouldn't exist, and don't :-)

I lurk on IRC sometimes... not often mind. See if you can spot my cunning monnicker. Here is a fragment: I think its allowed, since I anonymised it:

A: I think admins should have to wear uniforms when on duty
B: black boots and black leather with silver skulls and a whip
C: I was thinking of a smart jumpsuit
B: and a club
D: But who's knickers, that's the question?
E: admin uniforms need to be leather trenchcoats and jackboots. 
E: we are the mailed fist of Jimbo. we should look the part

Feare of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, SUPERSTITION. And when the power imagined is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION. Leviathan, ch VI

To have done more hurt to a man than he can or is willing to expiate enclineth the doer to hate the sufferer. For he must expect revenge or forgiveness; both which are hateful. [Ch XI].