User talk:The Founders Intent/Archives/2008/July

Strange edit

Do you have a reason for including this strange report [1]? Have you actually read it, or seen it cited anywhere sensible? --BozMo talk 12:30, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

What's your point? It's a publish paper from an organization with contributions from diverse scholars who work in the area. And I don't understand the last part of your question at all. Are you against certain opionions? --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^TALK 12:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

As far as I can tell SEPP is an Advocacy group. It does not seem to take contributions "from diverse scholars who work in the area", it rather exists to dispute existing consensus on tobacco, global warming etc. It is not a scientifically credible organisation since it neither represents a notable group of scientists (the wikipedia article on SEPP says they claim to represent 9 scientists nearly half of whom are deceased), nor does it operate any system of peer review (it does not allow other scientists to check or comment on views before publication). It therefore does not meet WP:RS for a source. To me it looks like a blog with a fancy title. Do you have some reason to think it is better than it looks. As for me, I would allow any significant opinion in a controversy article but ti does not seem to even reached that low bar. --BozMo talk 13:11, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I looked at some of the other links under science, and you have a problem with SEPP? The fact that an organization is described as an advocacy group in Wiki means nothing, however it does suit your purposes for debate's sake. I think we have a WP:OWN issue going on here. We also have a physicist here who reverted my edit and has a complaint of vandalism on his talk page. Friend of yours? --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^TALK 13:16, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Chill out. I don't know how many times in the last four years I have edited this article but I doubt it is more than fingers of one hand, or say once per six months. WP:OWN is pushing it a little. Consequently instead of trying to find the Cabal (and I don't recall ever communicating directory with CI but am happy to count anyone as a friend) perhaps you might like to consider the possibility that there may be some truth stacked against you rather than a conspiracy? --BozMo talk 13:34, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that must be it since an eco-news site is just as credibile as any university, and more credibly than Dr Fred Singer who has the credentials to discuss global warming regardless of how his site is categorized. The truth is stacked against me, my humble apologies sir. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^TALK 14:40, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Which is the eco news site? I haven't been through all the references, I just looked at one new one coming in --BozMo talk 14:48, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

"One new one coming in", yes just as I thought. Please don't pick on the new one....it may be like the old ones. I think this horse is beat up enough now. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^TALK 14:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Note

Hello sir, may I advice you to be careful with statements like this since in the witch hunts that take place here someone may use it to demonstrate lack of WP:AGF and to show that you dont know what vandalism really is. It is hard to look into the passion of the situation in retrospect, specially when others are doing the looking. Happy editing, Brusegadi (talk) 16:50, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I call reverting good faith edits without a valid reason, vandalism. It was treated the same as if I had defaced the page, except that I added a bonafide external link of scientific value. The standard for links is not uniform, as can be seen by some of the other links listed. Excuse my use of the term, but no discussion was initiated by the other editor prior to removal of the link. Thanks. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^TALK 17:00, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Harris wrestling family

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Can you help?

I see you were listed as a participant in the League of Copy-Editors so it seems likely you can ... The thing is the Military history wikiproject urgently needs prose pros to help with our best articles. Milhist covers a broad range of interesting and varied subjects from film to biography, battles to weaponry, and Roman emperors to twentieth-century dictators. In Milhist, A-Class has become the last port of call before FAC and we are looking for people to help identify prose and MoS issues at A-Class A-Class Reviews and help fix them prior to featured article candidacy. We also have a copy-editing section in our Logistics Dept and that can always use experienced copy-editors. For most of our articles, you don't need to be a specialist in the subject matter, just good with words.

If you think you can help, please do! Thanks for your time, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 04:14, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Roger, actually I'm part of the project. Sure I'd be glad to help with the copy-editing section. Just point me to what you want me to review. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^TALK 11:46, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi! Sorry about the slow response. I've got the builders in (eight of them, installing a new bathroom, building a conservatory, new loft ladder, replacing windows, putting new bookcases in my study etc etc) and yesterday, among other minor catastrophes, they managed to break my broadband socket. Anyhow, I've managed to rig something up, involving about thirty metres of trailing cables, and the old socket three floors away. If you like vintage british humour it's all summed up by this song.

Turning to the substance, I know you're a Milhist participant but I did the messages at breakneck speed and forgot to add a little PS. Apologies for any implied slight!

I'm in the process of constructing a copy-editing open tasks section for Milhist logisitics. This'll list all open Milhist ACR and FAC candidates. Hopefully it will be up and running in an hour or so, and there's plenty there to do!

Thanks very much for your interest and apologies, once again, for the slow response. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 03:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Didn't feel slighted at all, just reminding you.  :) --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^PRAISE 22:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVIII (June 2008)

The June 2008 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

A new newsletter has been released; Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 020.

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The Anti-Flame Barnstar

Awesome. I love it. Thank you. Big praise! SilkTork *^YES! 16:29, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Specify level of copy-editing

Hi Founders Intent

Could you please specify your level of copy-editing for the military history project here.

These are the levels:

1. Copy-edit lite: basic proof-reading, spellchecking, punctuation.
2. English variant conversion: for example, from American English to Commonwealth English, or vice versa.
3. Naturalising: copy-edit for editors whose English is fluent but not perfect.
4. FAC prose copy-edit: flow, structure, elegance.
5. FAC technical copy-edit: MoS-compliance for dashes, hard spaces, numbers, measurement conversion.

Thanks a lot. Wandalstouring (talk) 12:23, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Beer category decision

Hi Founders. This is a general call to all Beer Project members:

A discussion has been opened on changes that have been made to the existing Beer category system. The changes reverse the decision made by the Project in April 2006. The changes were based on agreement by only two people, and by a discussion that took place outside the Beer Project. There may be some merit in the changes, and to prevent future conflict it is important that there is some discussion of the matter. If you're interested, please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Beer#Brewery_cats.

We'll need to get our heads together at some point to talk about the best way forward for the Pub articles. Cheers. SilkTork *^YES! 18:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Pub Taskforce

I've started a Pub Taskforce page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Beer/Pub Taskforce - come over and sign up. And I have made an attempt at creating an Infobox, but it's not very good: {{Infobox Pub}}. Can you see if you can do a better one? I have tested it on Hope and Anchor, Islington. Regards SilkTork *^YES! 11:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

error?

Hello! I dont know what you were trying to do here so I just reverted you. An n was missing and I could not tell any other differences (but they were there, according to the green and red numbers. Brusegadi (talk) 22:00, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I was repairing ref format errors. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^PRAISE 22:13, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Cool, and thanks for the hard work! Brusegadi (talk) 22:16, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Scientific opinion on c. c.

I notice you marked a dead link in the surveys part of the Scientific Opinion page. I noted a working link (for me) on the talk page but didn't put it in, as there was a discussion earlier on the page, saying that that link didn't work and the other did. Not sure what the problem there is. N p holmes (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 06:23, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

The link was actually broken, and I couldn't find the document on the website. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^PRAISE 12:43, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

This one[2] (the one on the talk page at Talk:Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change#Heartland_Institute_dead_link) was broken? Or the one in the article? Or both? The one on the talk page still works for me, but it had earlier swapped out for the one in the article when someone (back in the archive somewhere) said on the talk page it didn't work for them. N p holmes (talk) 15:03, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

The reference link was broken. I don't know about the talkpage. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^PRAISE 15:42, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

OK I've put in the old one. Should have done it immediately, I suppose, but I was confused by the fact that it had been changed for the other. N p holmes (talk) 09:36, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Just a happy Birthday message to you, The Founders Intent/Archives/2008/July, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

SchfiftyThree 20:45, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

A new newsletter has been released; Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 021.

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WikiProject Articles Needing Copy Edit

Hello there!

I have begun a new WikiProject that has a very simple goal, to improve Wikipedia by dealing with the articles tagged for copy edit, and am wondering if you are interested. *smiles* This project is not a clone of the defunct League Of Copy Editors because we will not deal with requests for review (that is currently handled by our good friends over at Peer Review).

I expect that this will be a relaxed, happy and casual WikiProject, because participants will be able to take things at their own pace and use the project page to ask other participants for help. A handful of people have already expressed interest at the proposal page, and if you're interested, feel free to sign up at the project page itself and discuss the project at its talk page.

There are now over 4000 articles needing copy edit, and very, very few people working on them, so any help, however small, is appreciated. I am in the process of getting word out about the project, so I'm pretty sure we will be in good stead to fulfill our goals.

Cheers! -Samuel Tan 04:20, 22 July 2008 (UTC)