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“Scientific results are always provisional, susceptible to being overturned by some future experiment or observation. Scientists rarely proclaim an absolute truth or absolute certainty. Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.” ~ National Geographic Magazine
Atsme's contribution to science: Life is all about having fun so if you're not living, you're not having any fun.Talk📧
The most useful used skill I've discovered for Alexa - Alexa, call me. Now, if I can only get it to work with my keys.
Autocorrect has become my worst enema.
On a sign at a restaurant in Texas: Treat your Mom to a Margarita! You're probably the reason she drinks.
Research reveals that people who drink heavily are much more likely to experience retrospective memory loss. Isn't that why we drink?
I can fix stupid, but it's gonna hurt.
I have never faked a sarcasm in my life!
I’m not insulting you, I’m describing you.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. (attributed to Mark Twain, but could have been Grant Allen)
Atsme is not just a writer, she's award winning...she won a place in the psycho ward.
Ah, the effect of being affected while being affected by the effectiveness of the effect of the affectation of the effector's effective affecting effect. Infective, no?jc37
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I don’t know how much I don’t know because there’s no way to gage how much I don’t know when I don’t know what it is I don’t know, so stop telling me I should've known.
There has to be some merit to “ignorance is bliss"
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People who confuse the words "burro" and "burrow" don't know
their ass from a hole in the ground.
And then comes the time when you finally realize that you don't know shit.
Snake in the Bullpen
"I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At GM, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is go hire a consultant on snakes. Then you get a committee on snakes, and then you discuss it for a couple of years. The most likely course of action is -- nothing. You figure, the snake hasn't bitten anybody yet, so you just let him crawl around on the factory floor. We need to build an environment where the first guy who sees the snake kills it." ~Ross Perot
Terms We Use
We need to rethink some of the terms we use in the English language.
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treating each other civilly
accepting the possibility that your own actions might not have been correct
trying to work out the best thing to do for the project without concern for you own egos.
I don't know where you people think you are, but you definitely don't understand how WP:AN is supposed to work. Where's the disrespect? The attacking of each other's characters and motives? The entertaining temper tantrums? Please immediately review other threads on this noticeboard, so you can better participate in WP:AN. Right now you look like rookies.
I don't do AFD, so I have no opinion on whether to relist or not (couldn't hurt, tho, right?), but that's a good example of what should be going on here; useless babble without any helpful outcome. --barneca (talk) 9:57 pm, 16 September 2008, Tuesday (10 years, 8 months, 12 days ago) (UTC−5)
Carrots may be good for your eyes, but booze will double your vision.
To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it.
Useful quotes relative to WP:PAG
To say it in WikiVoice, or not?
While this list of sources is really good and does establish "commonly used by reliable sources" I think we should additionally ask ourselves - what added benefit is there to Misplaced Pages saying it "in our own voice" as against simply reporting in a neutral manner that it is common for his comments to be described as racist.
As of this moment, we are engaging in what I think is admirable short-term restraint. We say in the lede "He has a history of making controversial comments." That's fine as far as it goes, because 'controversial comments' is true, and is neither positive nor negative as an evaluation. Sometimes controversial comments are good, sometimes they are bad. Fine.
But we are at the same time here being too cautious, I think, in that we fail to inform the reader as to why the comments are controversial. Is he saying things that might be controversial in Iowa like "Gay marriage should be legal" or "Marijuana prohibition has done more harm than good"? No, actually.
So I think we should cautiously say something like "He has a history of making comments that have commonly been referred to as racist." Well, maybe 9 footnotes is excessive, but you see my point. We have more than enough to make the point that the reader needs to know, and I think the point is stronger than if we simply say, in our own voice, that he has a history of making racist comments. ~Jimbo Wales (talk) 9:57 am, 19 June 2018, Tuesday (19 days ago) (UTC−5)
To include it in a BLP, or not?
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(quote by Zaerethedited for brevity; Jimbo Walesagreed with Zaereth’s explanation.)
Politics, presidents and NPOV
I'd like to add that I don't mind a little bit of personal chit-chat here about politics, I'd like to always seek to tie it back to Misplaced Pages. We have chosen a very tough job: NPOV. Dislike for the President, fear about things that are happening in the world, may make it emotionally harder to remain neutral, but remain neutral we must. I happen to personally think that given the decline in quality of the media across the board (there are still fantastic journalists out there, but overall the landscape isn't great) the best way for us to help the world heal is neutrality. -- Jimbo Wales (talk)] 3:12 pm, 8 January 2019, Tuesday (UTC−6)
Deprecated sources & when to IAR
Jimbo's response to an editor's statement to not cite The Daily Mail as a source in articles because it has been deprecated. "No, that is not true. It is true that the Daily Mail is generally prohibited as a source, but in Misplaced Pages terminology that does not mean an absolute ban. Exceptions to the general rule can and do exist, per WP:IAR as well as general common sense in specific circumstances." --Jimbo Wales
Free thought isn't free anymore
“I have no beef with my colleagues, many of whom I admire and are friends,” Sullivan tweeted. “The underlying reasons for the split are pretty self-evident.” But he expressed solidarity with Weiss: “The mob bullied and harassed a young woman for thoughtcrimes. And her editors stood by and watched.”
(Excerpt from NYTimes)
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I replied, “I’ve never been that sick.”
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When I was young, I decided to enroll in medical school.
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Four Worms
Four worms were placed in 4 separate test tubes:
1st in beer
2nd in wine
3rd in whiskey
4th in mineral water
The next day, the teacher shows the results:
The 1st worm in beer - dead.
The 2nd in wine - dead.
The 3rd in whiskey - dead.
The 4th in mineral water - alive and in good health.
The teacher asks the class:
What did you learn from this experience?
A student responds:
Whoever drinks beer, wine and whiskey does not have worms.
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I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore.
Atsme's Education
I was educated at MIT, then went to Harvard. After that, things got fishy.
If only...
...sarcasm burned calories.
...you knew, you would know.
...closed minds came with closed mouths.
...mosquitos sucked fat instead of blood.
...the good died young, we'd be here forever.
...my teeth were as white as my legs.
...more people were fluent in silence.
When A Grizzly Attacks
Hiker to park ranger, "Ranger, how does one survive a bear attack?"
Ranger replies, Easy...remove the "f" from the word "way".
Hiker responds, "There's no "f" in "way".
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Re: the above Bloomberg article, "not very" is quite accurate, but I remain cautiously optimistic that once RECENTISM dies down, things will greatly improve.
"Since decisions are by those who participate in a localized discussion, leaving cedes the decision-making power to those willing to engage in the least logical and sane response. This incentivizes not just obsessive but also belligerent behavior and even harassment, and empowers those privileged with the time and resources to engage in this behavior. Minor quibbles about grammar is one thing, but these techniques are frequently used by political ideologues, ethnic nationalists, and conspiracy theorists. Professor Bryce Peake called this the “hegemony of the asshole consensus.”
No need to elaborate further on that particular quote. Some will be able to relate, whereas others will find it insulting. For more info, see Misplaced Pages @ 20. You may decide to submit your own essay. Talk📧14:03, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
Should it happen that a cabal of admins, operating on the talk page of an article or the lion's den of AN/I, manage to block you on an invented charge, the world will continue to turn. The grass will grow, the birds will lay eggs, the number of Pokémon-related articles will still double every 1.7 weeks, and articles on weathermen will be brought to AfD. Sure, it won't be done as smoothly and as elegantly as when you did it, but it will be done. This encyclopedic project will continue to turn. Sad, but true.
Hi Atsme, hope you are well. I came across Draft:Colossal Media (Company) in the AfC queue. I found the article interesting and thought of checking the sources. The sources used in the article are reliable, analyse the subject in depth, and do have a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Also, there are multiple such sources. My only query is whether these sources are completely independent of the subject. The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and The New York Times have great editorial insight, and the authors have no-connection to the organisation. Although these articles provide commentary on the subject, the sources also include relevant portions of interviews with the CEO of the company, so I'm not completely sure if these can be considered independent. On the other hand, Business Insider, Billboard Insider, and Adweek discuss the subject and their works non-trivially, although I'm unsure about how reliable these sources are and whether they can be used to establish notability. Is it possible for you to take a look? Apologies for the inconvenience. --Ashleyyoursmile!08:28, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Ashleyyoursmile - good question! Ok, so consider this...I drink orange juice for breakfast. Does that mean I am not independent of Tropicana, one of several manufacturers of orange juice? On the other hand, I own the company that puts the labels on the orange juice bottles for Tropicana. Am I independent? Some questions to ask yourself - are any of the people with the RS you mentioned affiliated with Colossal Media? IOW, do they sit on an advisory board, or work in any capacity for Colossal Media? Do they collect ad revenue or other forms of compensation from Colossal Media? WP:RS states that "Independent of the subject" excludes works produced by the article's subject or someone affiliated with it. For example, advertising, press releases, autobiographies, and the subject's website are not considered independent. An online advertisement about Colossal Media would not be independent, and neither would a press release generated by/for them, etc. Per WP:IS (a supplement to PAGs) - Using independent sources helps protect the project from people using Misplaced Pages for self-promotion, personal financial benefit, and other abuses. Reliance on independent sources ensures that an article can be written from a balanced, disinterested viewpoint rather than from the subject's own viewpoint or from the viewpoint of people with an axe to grind. Hope that helps clarify it for you. You are doing an excellent job - keep up the good work, and happy editing! Atsme💬📧11:10, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Atsme, thank you very much for clearing my confusion. I try to to be extra careful while reviewing articles on companies so that I do not overlook anything. I have accepted the draft. :) Ashleyyoursmile!11:54, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Kindly help review
Hello Atsme. Thanks for all you are doing for Misplaced Pages. If you can, kindly check out my draft article (https://en.wikipedia.org/Draft:Emmanuel_Wabwire) and offer your thoughts. I have been editing on here for a while but this is my first ever article to write. Thank you.
Good morning, HeartatSchool. Thank you for volunteering to take a NPP training course. I am happy to accept you as a trainee. Please allow me a bit of time to create the training pages, and I will ping you from there. Atsme💬📧12:32, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
WPM
My concern about deleting this article would be that editors would then take that as an excuse to dump content from the article into the individual articles on the individuals mentioned in the article. In fact, that's exactly the reason I created Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States many years ago – people kept adding conspiratorial material to other articles about the number of Catholic justices; now it's all in one place, explained in context, and does not clutter up biographies or other pages on the court. BD2412T19:23, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
You're quite welcome, CommanderWaterford. I will prepare your NPP course tomorrow and when it's ready, will ping you to start the course. Good luck! Atsme💬📧23:04, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
😂 But wait...there are special meds for WP editors who experience stress, vandalism, severe cases of WP:CIR, and the occasional WP:PA. You'll have to click on the image to enlarge it so you can read the fine print. There is a lot to take in, literally. I pinged you to your training session. You may begin. Atsme💬📧23:44, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, BDD - I have been snowed under in RL and on en.WP and Commons, so I have not had a chance to look at CENT. I'm headed to that discussion now, and again, thank you! Atsme💬📧19:13, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Kev...well, I agree it's not the best example, and I don't want it to seem like I'm supporting what the articles say 100%. I will add a few links that demonstrate the generalities and breadth of the issues, not just AP2. For example, Wired, this Stanford article, and Investor's Business Daily, if you think it would help bring clarity. I also thought about adding this one, although the updates stopped in 2017 when that editor left the project. I didn't intend to make it just about AP2 because it involves so much more than that topic area. I do so want us to be on the road to resolution so editors can present their arguments collegially without fear of being t-banned or blocked by surprise for some ridiculous reason. Atsme💬📧00:41, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
An article you created or have significantly contributed to has been nominated for deletion. The article is being discussed at the deletion discussion, located here. North America11:40, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
You posted to my talk page to say that I'd "restored challenged edits" to the leads of World Patent Marketing, and to accuse me of violating site policies. Because you didn't provide any diffs, and because I have no idea in which edit I might have restored the material you're concerned about, I asked for a clarification and diff on my talk page. You haven't responded, so I'm asking the same question here. Which of my edits restored challenged material to the lead of the article in question? MastCell18:33, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
In going through edits and disputes related to World Patent Marketing, I noted that, in this edit, you linked Omar Rivero to the company in the lead of the article.
You did not provide any (much less "multiple") reliable third-party sources linking Rivero to the scam in question. You did cite a press release from the scam company itself, but hopefully I don't need to explain why press releases from fraudulent scam companies are not third-party reliable sources. If multiple reliable third-party sources link Rivero to WPM, then of course we should include his name, but I shouldn't have to explain to you that such sources are necessary.
Your edit was a clear and fairly serious violation of WP:BLP. Since it hasn't been repeated, I am coming here rather than escalating it, but given the foundational importance of BLP policy, your frequent invocation of it, and your continued references to Rivero in connection to the WPM scam, I'm asking that you stop, re-read WP:BLP, and acknowledge the key importance of third-party reliable sources in determining how and whether we mention potentially negative material about living people. MastCell19:03, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
You sure it's smart to give warnings and threaten admin action at an article you are so very clearly involved at? I would just move along if I were you, but hey what do I know. PackMecEng (talk) 19:15, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
He has clearly and unequivocally engaged in hounding for the past TWO YEARS, and has insulted several editors to the point even Jimbo said he needed to modify his approach. He just made a huge mistake with this warning. Atsme💬📧19:20, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
MastCell, I have given some thought to your behavior toward me, and it's pretty obvious that it's HOUNDING by an involved admin; therefore, for my own well-being and peace of mind, I don't want you posting on my UTP again. I have muted your pings, and hope that you will show me the courtesy of voluntarily steering clear of me all together. I consider it to be the best option for both of us. Atsme💬📧03:48, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Copy editing Help
Hi Atsme! I saw your name on the Misplaced Pages:Peer review volunteers list and I was wondering if you're up for helping to edit and review Cueva de las Manos, an article that I've been working on recently, for spelling, grammar, and general copyediting. Thank you for your consideration!
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