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Hello there, dear sir. I would like to inform you that there is no need to have removed my edit to the year ]. The edit that I made to this page is a relevant edit. If you were to have read the page, you would have known that the actress who I edited onto the page was born in 1993, so technically it is relevant information. If you see this, please take note.
Arthur, do I remember correctly that you had it out with ChildofMidnight once or twice? Either way, you are mentioned at ], about one of CoM's blocked socks ({{U|Fortheloveofbacon}}), who has significant overlap with a current user. Thanks, ] (]) 15:24, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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:I can't say I remember CoM, but I think I remember bacon. — ] ] 15:28, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
The Editor.
:Technically, that comment was about ], not ]. — ] ] 16:50, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
::Sure, but that kind of makes you sound like Mrs. Drmies. And typically, when she starts a sentence with "technically", I already disagree. Happy days, ] (]) 17:49, 23 May 2014 (UTC)


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Arthur, the Chicago plan is the most reasonable and elegant solution of the national debt issue. It's a pity that your incompetence in this area makes you to remove it from the page. On the same token one can remove a math theory just because they don't understand it. But editing wiki is your job, so its up to you. <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 09:25, May 29, 2014‎</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
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:It's not a "solution" (IMO), and not relevant to that article (clearly), and not yet sourced to a ] — ] ] 10:43, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
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:{{tps}} I looked at the reverted text, and my brain was mush after the 2nd paragraph. I agree with AR's edit summary that it read like gibberish. That said, the proper place for discussing this is the article talk page, so others can weight in also. Then again, any ed who refers to another's alleged "incompetence" doesn't really earn much credibility in my eyes. See ], ], and especially see ] ] (]) 11:18, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
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Read again what you have written. If alleged incompetence doesn't earn credibility, what ed with alleged gibberish does? If your brain is much after an astronomy bit does it mean that heliocentrism is gibberish? The reverted text mainly reiterates the section called 'The transformation' from the 'Chicago Plan Revisited' wiki page and should be well understood by an economist. This is more than relevant here, as the side effect of the proposed monetary reform is elimination of national debt which this article is about. Unclear description for wide public? Maybe. Gibberish and irrelevant? No way. I am not going to become an editor and spend time re-writing or further discussing this, you must be right re the wiki guidelines, but IMO thought provoking 'gibberish' is better than perfect nothing.<small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 09:45, May 30, 2014‎</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
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I removed a prod on ] thinking the editor had either misunderstood the lead or was deliberately being obtuse. I missed the significance of the ellipsis after "it says it's the largest known odd number". I've now just seen who put the prod there so I feel a bit sheepish but I actually still think prod was too abrupt. I have no difficulty at all with a merge to ] but we should keep the nugget that is is probably the largest such number (extraordinary to my mind), not merely the largest known. Also, of course and importantly, the references. We should keep a redirect. Now, I (we) could just go ahead and do that but seeing as you've raised the matter , I'll just lie low for the time being. ] (]) 17:46, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
:The problem with a straight merge is that there is too much material for a line item, and not enough ''credible'' material for an article. We have to decide how much material is credible and noteworthy. I'll take a stab at it, though. — ] ] 17:52, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
::I have added a bit more and it is still not the longest item on a number. This article is an absolute shocker with no references at all (until 2719!). I never followed what was happening back when these multimerges were going on. Were the original articles referenced and those got lost or were they never referenced in the first place? ] (]) 18:56, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Thincat}} I believe most of them weren't original articles at all, but most number articles ''are'' inadequately referenced. On the other hand, saying that {{num|412}} is even shouldn't require a reference. Exactly where the boundaries of ] fall for mathematical properties is the subject of some debate. — ] ] 21:13, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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I live near Levy County and have an update.. Duke Energy bought Progress Energy. They are decommissioning the nuke plant in Citrus County and have scrapped plans for the two plants in Levy County. I'm sure Chiefland was planning on benefiting from the Levy plants and it's mentioned in your article. I'm sure you can find references and update the Chiefland article fairly easily. Thanks for all you do.
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And why say the source quoted is unreliable?
It is backed up by detail research and references, and more reliable than some of the other sources.


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The result of reverting is that my web site defines a system better than Misplaced Pages.


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Compare the pre-revision version with the last one I posted yesterday, I believe the latter is more accurate and clearly expressed on several points, not only the one above. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 14:53, 16 June 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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:It ''might'' be more accurate, but it's a lot of information with no credible (or ]) source. However, I don't think "systems" like IBM really can be treated under ], so it may be counterproductive to extend the definition of "system". — ] ] 16:32, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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Please read "EA as applied system theory" on the home page at avancier.co.uk for a short overview of how businesses and business systems have been treated as systems - exactly in line with system theory - since the 1970s.

The current page is wrong on some points and misleading on others. I inserted a reference to a reputable paper on my web site, not wanting to take personal credit, but I have been working with systems in theory and in practice, and teaching systems analysis and design since 1980, so if referring to me personally is more "reliable", then we can do that. Or else, we can remove any reference to me or my web site. I don't care about the reference as much as improving what looks like a naïve and inadequate page at the moment. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 18:24, 16 June 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


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Arthur - I await your explanation of why you have reverted to an inferior version of the page - how to improve it in some or all ways I proposed - and what you will count as a "reliable source" - Graham <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 10:16, 17 June 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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SO yes, I will post on the Talk page, and I do have a point of view. However I do not hold that wikipedia is at fault for any of this, it is however the fault of the wider scientific community, which its denial of CF has meant that blind skeptics have far more peer reviewed and mainstream sources than do supporters or scientists in the field.
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Hello there, dear sir. I would like to inform you that there is no need to have removed my edit to the year 1993. The edit that I made to this page is a relevant edit. If you were to have read the page, you would have known that the actress who I edited onto the page was born in 1993, so technically it is relevant information. If you see this, please take note. Thank you, The Editor.

P.S. My account is both more than 4 days old and I have made more than 10 edits, so there is no real need to do this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Impishfont (talk • contribs) 23:11, November 25, 2019 (UTC)

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