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IAASTD in GM food controversies article

hey

I saw you deleted the paragraph on IAASTD. I took a quick look at the report and I think I agree that the cited page mischaracterizes it (seems that IAASTD took great pains to make a nuanced report, and the cited source makes it black and white toward sustainable practices.. but I suggest you open a section in Talk on the GM food controversies page and present that.. if you don't I might do it. It's an interesting report -- thanks at least for calling my attention to it by deleting reference to it! Jytdog (talk) 22:02, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

The cited article was just one person's interpretation of the IAASTD report. Moses Kiggundu Muwanga from the board member of "International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements". While the IAASTD report doesn't exactly give the most favorable outlook on GMO, it doesn't ever make the conclusions asserted by Muwanga. The IAASTD report was also heavily criticized by the scientific journals "Nature" (Off the rails. Nature Biotechnology 26: 247) and "Science" (Dueling visions for a hungry world. Science 319: 1474-76). BlackHades (talk) 11:54, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

RE: Why are you reverting my edit?

Because there were other stat changes that other IP editors had done that hadn't been corrected, it was nothing against what you did, I was just bringing back the stats that were there before the vandals starting messing with the table. – Nohomers48 (talk • contribs) 20:50, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

February 2013

Your recent editing history at Race and intelligence shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Dougweller (talk) 05:53, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Completely false. I've made repeated attempts at discussion. In both the user talk page and in the talk page in the article. So I'm edit warring but the other user is not?...(bewildered). BlackHades (talk) 07:10, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes. You've made 3 reverts (restoring deleted material is a revert). The other editor made 2 (we count a series of reverts with no other users in between as one). So yes, you've hit 3RR and are at risk of being blocked. And 3RR is not an entitlement, you can't assume you can revert again with impunity and in fact will almost certainly be blocked if you continue. See the statement below. Dougweller (talk) 10:06, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Apparently it's clear that administrators are above the rules of wikipedia and WP:five pillars does not apply to them and can POV push with impunity. If that's the case, it's a clear example that the Misplaced Pages Project is a failure. BlackHades (talk) 22:22, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

You are reverting an article which is covered by Arbcom sanctions

The Arbitration Committee has permitted administrators to impose discretionary sanctions (information on which is at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions) on any editor who is active on pages broadly related to Race and intelligence. Discretionary sanctions can be used against an editor who repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Misplaced Pages, satisfy any standard of behavior, or follow any normal editorial process. If you continue to misconduct yourself on pages relating to this topic, you may be placed under sanctions, which can include blocks, a revert limitation, or an article ban. The Committee's full decision can be read at the "Final decision" section of the decision page.

Please familiarise yourself with the information page at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions, with the appropriate sections of Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Procedures, and with the case decision page before making any further edits to the pages in question. This notice is given by an uninvolved administrator and will be logged on the case decision, pursuant to the conditions of the Arbitration Committee's discretionary sanctions system.

I recommend that you wait for consensus before making any more controversial changes at Race and intelligence. Note the suggestions for editor behavior given in the Arbcom alert box at the top of Talk:Race and intelligence. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 06:06, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

There's been no consensus for KillerChihuahua to remove these huge chunks of WP:verifiability information. In fact, for many of these removal, he's the only one. And is very clear POV pushing that is in violation of WP:NPOV and ArbCom. BlackHades (talk) 23:40, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Request

Would you kindly move your comments at Talk:Race and intelligence to below mine? If you'll place something along the lines of "Comment on item I." before each of your edits it will be much easier to respond. Thank you very much. — ArtifexMayhem (talk) 22:23, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

On second thought, never mind. Your addition of sections is a good idea. I'll just copy my sig to each. — ArtifexMayhem (talk) 22:29, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Never never mind, looks like other would rather keep it linear. Sorry for the craziness. ArtifexMayhem (talk) 22:32, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

I've cleaned it up. In the future, please place your posts after the post you're addressing, and not within someone else's post. KillerChihuahua 23:29, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Personalized section headings

Would you please change the section headings on the talk page to remove references to specific editors, especially associating editors with misconduct. Per the talk page guidelines, you should not name editors in these headings and the heading should be neutrally worded. It does happen and I did it myself, this reasonably inhibits collegial and civil discourse. I have altered the more recent one, but you should retitle the other two that name specific editors.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 23:39, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Sure thing. BlackHades (talk) 23:41, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I've reverted the changes. I see no reason to sweep this under the rug and pretend BlackHades has not been personally attacking me, commenting on me and not the content, especially since he's still doing it. Removing my name from the headers accomplishes nothing except a pretense such attacks did not exist. One puppy's opinion. KillerChihuahua 03:32, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

No one is trying to sweep anything. Personally attacking you? You removing scientific consensus from the article is POV pushing. Everyone can see it. You're being informed what wikipedia rule you're breaking. It's not a personal attack. BlackHades (talk) 05:02, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

You should, however, cease your attacks and focus on content moving forward. KillerChihuahua 03:35, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Maybe some of us just want everyone to get along.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 04:49, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

KC, you should be following your own advice. BlackHades (talk)

You must have missed my notice

At the top of the page, editors are instructed to *Comment about the content of a specific article on the Talk: page of that article, and not here. In bold. It is also on my editnotice. In bold. Twice now you have failed to do so, and just like my notice says, I have removed those posts. I am asking you to cease wasting your time and effort and mine, and heed this. Post on the article talk page. Do not post about content on my talk page. Puppy has spoken; puppy is done. KillerChihuahua 21:52, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

It's ALREADY been talked through on the talk page. There's never been any objection for this text except for you. This is clear WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. Stop wasting time with this POV push. Let it go. This is not your personal article. BlackHades (talk) 21:57, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

R&I article

You should calm down and avoid snapping at KC or other editors. There is no reason whatsoever to believe there has been meatpuppetry. All the editors involved are regulars in the topic area as far as I know so their involvement is not unusual. Please remain open to discussion, even if it means going over old issues. One doesn't necessarily have to go over every last detail again if it has already been discussed, but you should be willing to at least explain why previous discussions reached certain decisions.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 01:30, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Some are regulars. Some aren't. I'm not saying everyone is involved in meatpuppetry or even most. But there's definitely strong suspicion for a couple people. For now, I'll take a wait and see approach. I'll present all the evidence when it's time. BlackHades (talk) 01:37, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

I have looked at all the involved editors and I see plenty of reason to believe they got there normally. There is no good reason to think otherwise, certainly not with those who are contributing most heavily to the discussion.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 02:32, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm becoming suspicious about this idea also, particularly regarding Dougweller. Is he a "regular" on this article? There do not seem to be any comments by him in the recent archives, yet he knows far more about the early history of these disputes than someone legitimately new to the topic would know. 101.0.71.27 (talk) 21:57, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

He's an administrator who is active on WP:AE, where many of these disputes wind up. aprock (talk) 02:24, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

If he's an administrator on WP:AE, I assume he will not be part of AE if this goes to AE correct? As he's quite involved in this dispute now, there's certainly a bias factor if he's going to be in AE in this specific dispute. BlackHades (talk) 07:07, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

I've been active in the case of socks of Mikemikev - sock puppetry is one of my pet peeves, to put it mildly. This guy is a really abusive sock - abusing both articles and editors. The article has been on my watchlist for years, it's just not one that I like getting involved with, partially due to all the conflicts. I've only edited the article twice, in August 2009 (info like this is linked on the history page, easy to find), and the talk page once in the past about two years ago to remind people this is under ArbCom sanctions, so my recent edit on socks & banned editors is in line with that. A bit ironic that the comment is from an IP address with only one edit. Dougweller (talk) 06:27, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm not a new user, I have a dynamic IP. I've been participating in the talk page discussions from other IPs in the same range. As you don't like to get involved in the article, what motivated you to suddenly begin participating at the same time as a few others with similar viewpoints, and post about history from ca. two year ago? I noticed the RockKnocker and GTZing socks, but both were blocked before they caused very much harm, so I don't get the impression this is worse now than at any other time. 101.0.71.21 (talk) 10:31, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, I apologise. Of course you are the one with the dynamic IP. The article's on my watchlist. I'd been observing and finally decided to chip in when I was KC's edit on the 7th. It may well not be any worse than any other time, it's always had problems and once in a while people need reminding. Dougweller (talk) 11:17, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/KillerChihuahua

This is the sort of reason why a lot of good editors hating editing or even commenting on articles such as R&I. It would have been nice to have been notified. Dougweller (talk) 10:08, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

I was just about to when a response was posted right away. BlackHades (talk) 10:10, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

And yes I hate it too. I avoided editing on this article for a long time. I reluctantly started after I noticed that the article was getting to be quite POV. With lots of omissions of reliable sources and lots of misinterpreted reliable sources. I never intended to have to spent this much time on this article. BlackHades (talk) 10:15, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

You might want to withdraw it and at least apologise to KC who you've accused of being a sockmaster. After all, if I'm a sock then I'm really KC, so no point apologising to me. But I don't think you know what a sockpuppet is, did you read WP:SOCK? Your whole argument is about me, not about how KC created me so that he can edit from 2 accounts. Dougweller (talk) 10:21, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

WP:Meat puppetry states that it should be filed under SOCK. BlackHades (talk) 10:23, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

I am very curious though. When KillerChihuahua removed that section, why did you think her reasoning of "not relevant" was valid? Average brain sizes difference that had a cited source of "Race, Intelligence, Brain" and its discussion with intelligence is not relevant to the article of Race and Intelligence? It just seems so odd to back her reasoning. BlackHades (talk) 10:27, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Not discussing edits now or here. The big red X and the "This is a failed proposal" should have been a clue to ignore the page and do as it says, read the current policy at WP:MEAT. See the bits about new editors and about not calling people meat puppets. Dougweller (talk) 10:45, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

FYI

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Mathsci (talk) 10:50, 18 February 2013 (UTC)