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A belated thanks

Your contributions to the JDL article were timely. Will Beback seems fair minded and capable so I was willing to let it slide but you struck to your guns and checked the sources. Kudo's and salutations. Albion moonlight 07:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Child labor

Hi LL-E, thanks for the edit to the starting sentences of this article. It was a grim couple lines, and is much improved with you words. Cheers,--Bookandcoffee 08:36, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Internet suicide

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Improvement!

Excellent job of cleaning up the overly exuberant language someone introduced around Churchill's defenders Witherspoon and Mayer. I entirely agree that leaning on "professor" repeatedly is absurd, as is a peacock word like "preeminent". We don't agree much... so I'd like you to know that I appreciate good edits when you make them. LotLE×talk 20:07, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate the kind words.--Getaway 20:10, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Ward Churchill Controversy on 9/11

Nice job paring down the Mayer quote and sprucing up my additions. You're good! Could you weigh in on the talk page about the block quotes vs. bordered quotes? Cheers and solidarity, --Dylanfly 20:21, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree Lulu: Re Churchill.

I was just thinking out loud that if we could agree to move the controversial stuff to a fully separate article and keep the Bio mostly as a discussion of his books we would be able to avoid BLP issues. My comments were intermingled with other peoples comments. I was trying to show Preston the error in his interpretation of Wiki BLP . I made nice with him on his talk page and I think he will be easier to deal with in the future. This is not to say he will change his pov but he does seem to show an interest in learning more about wiki policy. So hang in there and know that I am willing to help you fix that article and all its forks. I do not edit boldly yet because I am new to the enterprise. I read and or watch a lot of the articles but I still haven't done anything as bold as reworking a whole section of an article. I intend do this soon in a less controversial article . I am also thinking of starting an article on Churchill's "Agents of Repression". Albion moonlight 11:51, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Gay cowboy

The term "gay cowboy" is only offensive if you think it's offensive to be gay. Since being gay is a perfectly fine thing to be, there's no problem with this term. That is all I will say for now. Beyond this, I do not wish to discuss this topic with you one-on-one. Please take your concerns to the Jake Gyllenhaal talk page (where I believe you'll find previous discussion). I only restored the edit; I did not put it there originally. --Melty girl 21:42, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me, but the same goes for you as far as revisions. You're the sole person trying to change something that stood for a long time without any problem. You are the one who changed language, while I am the one who restored it. Others do not agree with you. You haven't attained consensus to make your CHANGES of an FA article. I think the burden is on you to make your case to the editors of the article, not vice versa. --Melty girl 00:16, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Lambda edit

Hi, I saw your removal of the ] on Lambda and the reason you gave. On further searching for lambda in the page, I thought this: "(However, any type of control flow can in principle be implemented within lambda expressions by short-circuiting the and and or operators.)" is equally "too specific for general article, and has a "How To" quality about it." --Paddy 07:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. I trimmed it down and stated the preference for named functions the other edit included (but more concisely). LotLE×talk 09:16, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

python link

dear David Mertz‎,

you removed my link and with the comment “rm spam”. I'm a wikipedia editor since 2003 and the linked site is my site. I think it is a reasonable tutorial and uniq cross references on Perl and Python. Looking at other links at the external section, i think it's reasonable to be there. Xah Lee 17:32, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I probably should have used the comment 'rm link farm' instead (or at least "link spam", which is distinct from "spam" generically: clearly the link wasn't ads for viagra or money loans). See Misplaced Pages:External links. I hadn't realized the tutorial was yours, though that reinforces the idea that it was a bit inappropriate to add. The Python article (like a lot of articles) has far too many external links already; adding every miscellaneous good article or tutorial pushes it still further.

I'd like to reduce the links in the Python article, certainly not grow them. Anything that fails the test of "Can I understand what this topic is without that link?" should go... in WP articles generally. Actually, it's a bit more specific: external links should support a particular point in the main discussion, and lend citational support. You can't have too many of those. But external links should not be "generally interesting" external articles on the overall topic. LotLE×talk 00:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Jake

Just as well that it's not a scare quote at all then, isn't it? It's how he was referred to all the mainstream media. Do you suppose a footnote explaining this will clear up any confusion? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 07:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I do... if that footnote is placed either in the subsection describing Gyllenhaal's work in Brokeback, and/or in the article on the movie itself. The rather widespread use of the, admittedly, catchy phrase is noteworthy. It's just too much of a digression to go into in the lead. I'm not necessarily in love with the phrase I restored (I had tried editing it to something shorter-but-not-inaccurate a week ago or whatever). But what's there now is still relatively concise, while also not actively misrepresenting Lee's film the way the popular catchy phrase does. LotLE×talk 07:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Jake Redux

You've reached your 3RR limit on this article today. Further reversions will lead to your being blocked for edit warring. Give it some thought. Jeffpw 17:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I know that. Why on earth are you joining Dev920's edit warring to insert some inaccurate and misleading "cute" phrase in an article lead?! Do you have some misguided fantasy that the mis-characterization is some sort of gay rights thing? Or is it just pushing for worse language purely to make the article worse? Or are you just so utterly blinded by trite reviewers using dopey phrases that you can't imagine why good language matters? LotLE×talk 18:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Seems to me you're getting up there in reverts too, Lulu - why don't you give it a rest? The phrase is in quotes - with all due respect, whether you think it's dopey or cutesy or misguided is frankly not too interesting and certainly not relevant. Your latest edit is ok with me, more or less, but I would have liked you to leave the 4 cites there that I had just posted for more than 5 minutes so it might sink in for the people who keep removing any reference to the phrase which is ridiculous. Tvoz |talk 20:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I restored one of the references. Did you see? Do you think it's important to include them all... if so, I'm certainly fine with that. I just don't want it to appear that the citation is of the fact the role is that of a gay cowboy, but rather that it's a citation to the usage of said phrase. LotLE×talk 20:39, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

All I know is that nearly every one who keeps reverting to the gay cowboy mode is part of the GLBT and in the absence of any other merited justification, have a political agenda to further. I notice that no one overtly denied this, and in fact, kept ignoring the point. What was accomplished was a month long protection of the page. I wish I cared enough to keep battling on this, but this is one that is simply not worth the effort. There are so many other things on WP that need attention!! Wildhartlivie 13:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. If you look at the user pages of Jeffpw, Dev920, and MeltyGirl, you see that they all belong to the WP GLBT project, and have various gay-rights type comments on their home pages. All of which is 100% consistent with my own politics, FWIW (actually, I'm a lot more radical, and knowledgeable, than any of them). Of course, a WP article should not be about any editor's politics. Still, what bugs me almost as much as what was wrong with the lead sentence itself is the deeply misguided, simplistic and naive belief those editors share that repeating the (right-wing) catch phrase is somehow pro-gay. Civil rights are not served by crude essentialism, despite the prevalence of bad thinking among pro-rights people (as among people in general). LotLE×talk 19:12, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not part of any LGBT project, I'm not gay, I'm not right wing, and I don't think that adding that phrase is either pro or anti gay. I'm editing an article about an actor, fachrissakes, with no political agenda in mind. The movie was called the "gay cowboy" movie all over the place - to pretend otherwise is absurd. I don't really care if it has the qualifying words saying that was the media usage - I think it's unnecessary, but it's not wrong, so fine. And yes, I'd like more refs in there because it makes the point of how widespread the phrase was. Tvoz |talk 19:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Then it's a good thing we didn't say you were. But some of the others clearly have an agenda.Wildhartlivie 23:30, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

genderfuck

Good stuff, cheers Pete.Hurd 02:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

404

I went back to rm this having done more research, and you already had. Thanks. The similarity is mentioned in Apollo Guidance Computer which I was working on and I've updated the 00404 bit in that article with a cite which strongly indicates no common origin (although if there were, I think it would have been interesting enough to mention). All the best to you! Gwen Gale 05:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

It's a sort of absurd assertion. There are a bunch of other apocryphal stories too about this code number, none particularly worth repeating (but lots of them in the article edit history).

It's just weird that anyone thinks this is a thing that needs further explanation: As the article perfectly well explains, HTTP status codes follow a fairly straightforward pattern; and moreover, HTTP codes are largely similar to those used by the much earlier FTP protocol. Sure it's possible that Berners-Lee might have arbitrarily decided to give reverse meaning to, e.g. 404 vs. 403 (and then probably, people would be searching for occurrences of the number 403 that seem vaguely similar to HTTP "not found"). But it's not as if the protocol uniquely uses a funny number for this one status; every return message has some numeric status code. LotLE×talk 07:47, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

It might have been the whiskey

Or perhaps a designer drug of some sort. Or perhaps it could be that I don't like taggers in general. Either way what I said applies to the dubious Mr.anon. I put the portal back. : Albion moonlight 10:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Criticism of Lacan

You seem to have removed large amounts of criticism of Lacan. Why is that?MarkAnthonyBoyle 21:21, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

These so-called criticism sections in academic articles are almost always idle gossip, and pejoratives by non-notable casual readers of the underlying thinker. Such was definitely the case for the Lacan article... and I see just now, it's much worse in the Freud article, that you've contributed to. Criticism sections (on academic thinkers) should alway be concise, and not outweigh the neutral description; and, in particular, they should focus on criticisms by people in a position to judge (i.e. in the relevant fields), not simply outside thinkers with passing opinions of other fields. LotLE×talk 21:31, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Lulu you might want to see my post about MarkAnthonyBoyle's additions at WP:RS/N. I think you're spot on about this particular case. I also think you've hit the nail on the head as regards criticism sections in philosophy and academic articles generally. There is (generally speaking) a case of WP:UNDUE in many, such as Lacan and Freud, but also in gender studies articles.
As far as policy goes there is nothing wrong with "outside thinkers" (to use your term) critizing disciplines or academics, however unless those criticisms are regarded as important by the field they're criticizing then the criticism remains a fringe idea. And we can measure how important the mainstream regards an idea by how many times it or its authors are cited.
In this case I haven't found any books/articles/journals citing Buekens unpublished book on Lacan so as far as I'm concerned it aint a reibale source--Cailil 23:35, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

It is a balancing act, of course, in regard to "outside thinkers". Obviously, I don't think that a criticism of, e.g., psychoanalysis in general is non-notable if it comes from a non-analyst. Clearly, someone who criticizes the entire field of study probably isn't a practitioner of it. But the place for a criticism of "psychoanalysis in general" isn't the Lacan article (the Freud article is a special case, since he founded the field; but even there, I'd rather push the bulk of such "in general" criticism elsewhere). The best place for that sort of thing might be psychoanalysis, or maybe a child like criticisms of psychoanalysis. Unless the criticism is of Lacan specifically (rather than of some more general trend or school he belongs to), his article isn't the right place.

The same principle, of course, applies to any other field with notable practitioners. I think evolutionary psychology is 90% hogwash, but putting that fact in the Richard Dawkins or Steven_Pinker articles is the wrong place for it. Or likewise, I've encountered many such WP:UNDUE criticism of post-modernist/structuralist thinkers: It's one think to point out the ways that Slavoj Zizek takes issue with Judith Butler (good and relevant to observe, though of course still not to belabor); it's quite a less worthwhile topic to include some rant by one of those folks who hate everthing about so-called post-modernism, and who knows only that Butler is one name often included in that tendency of thought. LotLE×talk 23:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

None of the people I quoted were "non-notable casual readers" or even "outside thinkers". Unless you consider Lacan to be "outside" psychoanalysis, or perhaps that psychoanalysis is "outside" psychology, or "outside" philosophy, or perhaps "outside" linguistics. They were "concise" quotes. They were about Lacan, and about Freud, specifically in each case. They were by people well respected in their fields who had made a study of Lacan or Freud as the case may be, and found deficiencies in the thought and character of those individuals. Morover they represent a broad consensus of opinion; they are not "idle gossip". It is true that they are scathing, and that they seriously question the credibility of each of these men. That is preciseley the point. I am not soap boxing here. I am attempting to provide NPOV in articles that otherwise protray highly contentious thinkers as being without anything but minor, arcane quibbles from scholars generally sympathetic to their views. On a personal note (this is really none of my business, and you can ignore it if you want) I just wonder why it is that 1. you seem to be completely unaware that such criticism is extant throughout the associated sciences and disciplines associated with these thinkers, and 2. so concerned that these figures be immune (or seem to be immune) from criticism in an encyclopedia article about them? MarkAnthonyBoyle 23:00, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I wonder if you have ever read an encyclopedia article?! Rather than soapboxing, as you wish to for these psychoanalytic figures (perhaps for others, I haven't looked at your edit history), an encyclopedia presents a neutral description of the contributions of a particular thinker to his or her field of inquiry. That's what we should do: WP can be better than traditional encyclopedias like EB, but we should start by looking to traditional ones for tone, at least.

So, for example, check what EB has to say about Freud or Lacan. You'll find that there is absolutely nothing there on the personalistic "criticism" angle. What you might find is criticisms from within pyschology, but even there the tone and content will be far more concise and professional than the ad hominems you hope to insert or have inserted on WP.

This is not something special to psychoanalysis, however. You seem to have some sort of personal animosity to that field. So perhaps I can convince you to move laterally and examine the tone of article in other fields. What does EB write about Leó Szilárd in physics? Or Theodosius Dobzhansky in biology? Or George Herbert Mead in social psychology? Or pick any famous academic from any field you like. What you'll notice is that every single EB article on every such figure is completely free of the sort of "critical" rants that you are trying to put into the articles on these psychoanalytic thinkers (and no, it's not because any of them were saintly and never criticized, it's because EB writes encyclopedia articles). LotLE×talk 23:17, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Encyclopaedic tone

On reflection your comments are fair enough. While I find those quotes I put in amusing and liberating (tell it like it is!) they don't properly belong in an encyclopaedia. But I do think it is important to avoid 1. hagiography, 2. obfuscation, 3. patronising remarks by other editors over matters of disagreement. Fair enough?MarkAnthonyBoyle 07:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I often find a juicy epithet rather amusing as well, but such is very rarely the stuff of encyclopedia articles. Perhaps some quip by Dorothy Parker, or Winston Churchill, or Oscar Wilde, might have a place in their own articles (just to name a few rather skilled epithet writers), but not in the articles of those people they insulted (even assuming the latter are themselves notable people).

I agree that hagiography is a danger; in general, however, I've seen that trap fallen into on WP far less often than I have the symmetrical one of false balance: i.e. in a biography, add one "critic" for every supporter or assertion of the bio subject her/himself.

You had remarked somewhere recently (I noticed looking through your recent contributions) that a good tone was to write, e.g., "Freud argued that X" rather than "Freud discovered X". In general, that seems correct. There's a danger of circumlocution if you try to contextualize exactly who believed a particular thing, in what year, and in what context. But where it doesn't get in the way, observing that an idea is a position of the bio subject rather than a neutral discovery is indeed much more neutral. That said, if a paragraph or section leads with "In X's theory of Y..." you can pretty much just state the contents for a while without inserting "according to X" in each later sentence. It's sort of understood that a set of ideas explicated in a section are the ideas of the person the article or section is about (not the universally accepted "truth"). But getting tone right is subtle. LotLE×talk 07:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

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Article in wrong namespace

I think you made Archive to August 2007 in the wrong namespace. Not sure exactly what you were trying to do but it's not suppose to main namespace. Pilotboi / talk / contribs 04:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I apologize. I meant to be creating ] at Talk:Jacques Lacan, but made an error. I thought I canceled before creating the erroneous page, but apparently not. LotLE×talk 05:00, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I figured it was a simple error like that. I was going to try to fix it myself but was unsure of who's or what's talk page it was for. --Pilotboi / talk / contribs 05:02, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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Re:Bad Faith

I don't care if you have been editing Misplaced Pages since the start of time, it makes no difference to me. As for you moving other people comments, you made Sarvagna's comment

And how did you decide that the LTTE flag was the symbol of the "other" side? If you cant explain/demonstrate that, I request that you retract your vote and abstain from voting. Thanks.

a response to

I strongly agree. We should take this to Mediation.

instead of what he was trying to question. Unless you didn't notice, that makes no sense what so ever. So my statements stand.--snowolfD4 19:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

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No interest

I have no desire talking to the conservative anon.

I had to deal with him at Talk:Alliance_for_Progress getting a third party involved before he stopped his edit warring.

he has accused me of stalking him when I created the Lewy article.

I would rather communicate through third parties.

I didn't want you to ask you for your opinion because of that "ant" comment 1 1/2 years ago never sat well with me. Based on that experience, I am probably wasting my time with this message, so I will end it here. Travb (talk) 03:15, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I have no recollection what "ant comment" occurred 1.5 years ago; I'm not sure from your remark here who made such comment either. I also have no idea what prior edit conflicts you might have had with the anon, nor about her/his political leanings (I don't doubt your characterization is correct, I just don't have any prior knowledge).

In any case, the matter of section titles in the Lewy article does not have anything to do with any such history; it's just a minor matter of consistency and stylistic preference. As I stated, I think the anon's choice is slightly better, but I'm hardly stridently opposed to your use of exact book titles. The point is, this isn't something to decide by who can revert the most times; it's the sort of thing that should be discussed on an article talk page... even if by necessity with editors with whom you have past conflicts. LotLE×talk 03:36, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. Hope the ward churchill page is doing well :) Travb (talk) 16:16, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Since he has decided to discuss me on this page without giving any indication of doing so, I feel I should explain myself briefly. My recent interest in Lewy comes primarily from finally picking up my own copy of his America in Vietnam (hence my ability to reference specific quotes and pages). The past conflicts come from the article he mentioned and a few others where he proceeded to revert my edits (including deletions of tendentious, unsourced content) wholesale on Richard Pipes and Abbie Hoffman. This appears to be yet another example of his elevating personality issues over content matters, but as always I am not interested in the war he appears to be waging. 129.71.73.248 21:43, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

No offense intended in request for citation

I didn't realize my request for a citation in programming language would result in sarcasm and accusations of vandalism. My intention is to improve the article, not cause offense to the editors of the otherwise well written article. Timhowardriley 00:54, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Python simple GUI sample

Hi, you were faster than me :) (See http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lsungur#Python_simple_GUI_sample ) Regards, Mykhal 20:06, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

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Check my report on WP:AN/3RR.Verklempt (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 22:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Ward Churchill misconduct issues

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Luce Irigaray

Please let's discuss changes on the talk page. There are other issues that need dealing with aside from Sokal and Bricmont's criticism. Skoojal (talk) 20:27, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Mixed citations and footnotes

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Image:Sego lily cm-150.jpg

Hi, Image:Sego lily cm-150.jpg has been uploaded under PD-self, but it is a derived work of Image:Sego lily cm.jpg, which is available under the GFDL. Can you explain how the 150px image had been uploaded as PD-self, please? Thanks. --Kjoonlee 11:17, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

jargon?

Asking 100 people what is "democratic party certified" is jargon that probably 99 people won't know what you are talking about. FL and MI notes are neutrally worded. I am not saying it is a Hillary ploy or an Obama ploy. I'll let it go for now.

As for his mother's name, it is very important to list her full name. As a compromise, you can put Stanley Ann Obama (Ann Obama). What's the big fuss to remove her name? DianeFinn (talk) 18:48, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

If you want to change the official name of Ann Dunham's article, do that. But otherwise, that's the name she most commonly goes by, and should be linked as such. We also don't make the link say 'Stanley Ann Dunham Soetero' or 'Ann Sutoro', both of which she also went by in some contexts/times.

As to the map... even with my reduction, it is of nominal relevance to general bio. Every extra word pushes it closer to deserving deletion from this article (clearly it is relevant to one on presidential campaign and so on). LotLE×talk 19:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

There is a wikilink to her full name. It is a matter of courtesy and dignity to use her full name. Look at the Richard Nixon article. It says his dad is Francis Nixon (and explains that he used Frank in the father's article). Doesn't this make sense? It's to show respect. DianeFinn (talk) 21:03, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

It contradicts Misplaced Pages's style guide. Period. End of story. LotLE×talk 23:12, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Barack Obama

I see lots of reversions but very little discussion by you in the past 24 hours, and specifically since I placed this comment here, yet you accuses me of being "way past a 3RR violation" in your edit summary. Consensus on the Wright paragraph was well established, and even accepted by some pro-Obama editors, until you arrived. I do not choose to engage in an edit war. I choose to offer civil and constructive discussion, followed by consensus. Let's talk. The presidential campaign is the single event that makes Barack Obama more notable than someone such as Jon Tester, another freshman senator who merits only a few hundred words in Misplaced Pages. Four years ago, Obama was an obscure state senator in Springfield, Illinois. Without a more substantive discussion of the controversies that have arisen in this campaign, this article is in violation of WP:NPOV. Banishing controversial material to satellite articles, where it is proven that very few people will read it, does not resolve the NPOV issue in this article. Please work out these differences on the article Talk page, rather than simply reverting the well-established consensus version. Kossack4Truth (talk) 11:42, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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