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Working on recreating “Race and crime”.

I’m posting this comment on the discussion pages of several users who were involved in editing the article Race and crime before it was merged into Anthropological criminology, to let all of you know that I’m working on recreating the Race and crime article. My current draft for it can be found here. I would appreciate help from any of you with two things related to this:

1: RegentsPark, the admin who protected the redirect from Race and crime to Anthropological criminology, has suggested that the statistical information in this article should be better-integrated into the portion of it that discusses how these statistics can be interpreted. I would appreciate help with improving this aspect of the article, or any other aspects of it that you think could be improved.

2: RegentsPark has let me know here that he won’t be willing to unprotect the article himself, no matter how much it’s improved, so if I would like it to be unprotected I should propose this at WP:RFPP. I’ve proposed there that it be unprotected, but the admin who responded (User:Camaron) stated that without RegentsPark’s approval, I would need to first obtain a consensus that the article should be recreated. If you think the article does not require any additional improvements, and is good enough to be recreated in its current state, I would appreciate you making your opinion about this known on the draft’s discussion page, so that we can begin to create a consensus for this.

Thanks in advance. --Captain Occam (talk) 23:41, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Race and intelligence

Thanks for your decision to get involved in this article. If you feel like continuing to participate in the discussion there, that would be much appreciated. --Captain Occam (talk) 05:29, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Your real life connection to people you are commenting about

Do you think you should make your real life connection to Captain Occam clear when commenting about him? Hipocrite (talk) 14:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

I think it's excessive to mention it in every comment, but I don't try to keep it a secret and will answer honestly if asked. -Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 21:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

It's one thing that some editors have the (IMHO) honesty to register and contribute as themselves in real life, and such information is available. It's another when personal detail, whether otherwise accessible or not, is used to smear editors with derisive speculations. As one who has been called a "fascist Eurotrash faggot" owing directly to WP's violation of my privacy, I sympathize, but until WP demonstrates it cares more about privacy and respect for individuals than WP and the opportunity for drama-mongering, the situation will not change. IMHO, as long as dealing with such issues is left in the hands of individuals not affiliated with the WMF, WP cares not at all unless it is under direct legal threat. PЄTЄRS J VЄСRUМВА ►TALK 14:17, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Pakasuchus

On 16 August 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pakasuchus, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Arbitration enforcement

A thread concerning your involvement in the recent arbitration of the race and intelligence dispute has been started here Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Captain_Occam. Wapondaponda (talk) 18:46, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Balaur bondoc

Hey! no worries, don't have this one on the agenda :) Look forward to seeing your rendition! MMartyniuk (talk) 07:31, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Artwork

Hey, cool artwork you're uploading! If you're interested, you can post it here for review, so that any technical inaccuracies may be pointed out, if there are any that is, heh: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dinosaurs/Image_review FunkMonk (talk) 18:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! That's an awesome resource, I'll be sure to check it out next time I draw something for Misplaced Pages (this one has already gone to press so to speak, so it wouldn't benefit from much at this point). -Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 22:27, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

On advice

Hope you didn't find it too depressing. (!) Best, PЄTЄRS J VЄСRUМВА ►TALK 22:09, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Not at all. I appreciate your input and advice a great deal. -Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 22:26, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Balaur

Thanks for contributing the Balaur illustration! Nice! Comet Tuttle (talk) 05:41, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the compliment! -Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 05:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Hey, no plans to do a Balaur scale at the moment, have at it! MMartyniuk (talk) 01:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy

Hi, I made a query about the use of sources in this article at WP:NOR/N.--Victor Chmara (talk) 17:44, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

blanket reverts

It's not clear to me why you're all of a sudden reverting many of the R/I related edits I've recently made. If you've got a problem with the edits, it might help to bring them to the talk page instead. aprock (talk) 05:29, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I reverted two of your edits, I'm not sure if that counts as "many." I'm getting a sense now of how things work on these articles, especially from seeing how you handled removing Victor's charts on R&I. Based on BRD policy everything I'm doing is totally normal.

Also, I did bring both of the reversions up in detail on the talk pages, if you'd like to discuss them there. -Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 05:47, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

If you review the removal of the images, you'll see that they were not removed until they had been discussed multiple times with several editors weight in, and most of them agreeing that they were either not appropriate or represented undue weight. If you'd like to take a similar tack, you're welcome to. Your tracking down of my edits, reverting first, then asking questions later seems a bit antithetical to the sort of approach I took, and one that seems a bit brash given the recent warnings you've been given. aprock (talk) 05:55, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

The point is that when someone disagrees with a controversial piece of content, it's normal to remove it until a consensus has been reached about it.

I didn't mean to give the impression I was tracking down your edits. These two reverts I just made were things that have been bothering me for a while. I originally brought them up with Victor but got in trouble for that, and the ensuing arb enforcement thread indicated that I ought to have reverted them myself instead of trying to get anyone else to. The reason I waited until now is because I needed some time to familiarize myself with the normal type of conduct on these articles. -Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 06:16, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I've addressed the specifics of your reverts on the talk page. Reviewing and , I come away with a different understanding than you do. aprock (talk) 06:25, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for being more clear about your concerns in the talk pages, and the constructive edits. There are a couple of things I'd like to address just to make sure we're on the same page. First, there are two ways of addressing problems we see in articles. We can either edit them directly, or revert problematic edits. If at all possible we should try and take the edit approach, improving on the problems we see, and avoid reverting. Second, if there is a specific policy problem, by bringing it up on the talk page first, and waiting some period of time for feedback before making changes, we can often clarify what the exact problem is, and the best way to address it. aprock (talk) 18:14, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Arbitration amendment

A thread concerning your involvement in the recent arbitration of the race and intelligence dispute has been started here Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment#Request_to_amend_prior_case:_Race_and_intelligence. Wapondaponda (talk) 06:30, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Race and biomedicine

I've inserted the draft into the article - if nothing else it'll at least reopen the discussion.·Maunus·ƛ· 22:16, 2 October 2010 (UTC)