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Please review these articles before commenting: Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view Misplaced Pages:No original research Misplaced Pages:Citing sources Misplaced Pages:Verifiability Suppression of dissent Fringe science Perpetual motion History of perpetual motion machines From time to time I'll respond here and delete the old content; I'll leave them for a few weeks (mostly). JDR 18:52, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

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So Long, and Thanks for the all comments ...

Invitation

As a Wikipedian in Kansas you are cordially invited to become a member of the WikiProject Kansas. If interested, simply add your name to the members list on the project page and add the template {{User WPKansas}} to your own user page. Thanks. (Also, I concur with the comments on your user page. Well said!) StudierMalMarburg 16:57, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Maybe. Seems if the administrator has blocked me for a bit. Maybe later. J. D. Redding 18:49, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Bruce DePalma

Bruce DePalma (born Bruno James DePalma) (October 2, 1935–1997), son of noted orthopaedic surgeon Anthony DePalma and elder brother of film director Brian De Palma, was a well known figure in the Free energy suppression community.

De Palma claimed that his N-machine Homopolar generator, a device based on the Faraday disc, could produce five times the energy required to run it. According to mainstream physics, no such device is physically possible. De Palma studied electrical engineering at Harvard (1958) and taught physics at MIT for 15 years, working under Harold Eugene Edgerton. He was also employed by Edwin H. Land of Polaroid fame.

Bruce De Palma's development of the N-machine concept in 1977, among his other anomalous devices (at least one of which, De Palma claimed, displayed anti-gravity characteristics) and the claims surrounding them, set him on a collision course with his more mainstream peers. His claims of "free energy" were vigorously refuted over the course of twenty years, by conventional scientists and some members of the alternative energy community alike.

His search for financial backing for the construction of a marketable N-machine saw him relocate from Santa Barbara, California to Australia c. 1994, and then New Zealand in 1996. Probably his greatest ally in his conviction that the N-machine could solve the world's energy and environmental crisis was Paramahamsa Tewari, a Project Director with the Indian Nuclear Power Corporation, with whom he corresponded regularly over many years. Tewari's Space Power Generator, claimed to be 200% efficient, is based on the same theoretical foundations as the N-machine.

De Palma's death in New Zealand in October 1997 put an end to his most ambitious free energy project, and occurred only weeks prior to the official testing of a device constructed over the course of 6 months in an Auckland workshop. The test was attended by, among others, the project's financial backer, Bruce Bornholdt, a prominent Wellington barrister, as well as the pioneering developer of the Adams motor, Robert Adams (now deceased), who observed the operation of, and measured electrical output from, the N-machine. This single test failed to demonstrate the over-unity potential of the N-machine - most of the output energy being lost as heat - and the project was immediately dissolved.

• Homopolar generator
• Perpetual motion
• History of perpetual motion machines
• Steorn

• THE HOME OF PRIMORDIAL ENERGY, De Palma's website with numerous articles.
• Free Energy - The N-Machine

Removed commentary at top

I do not authorize you including any information or commentary about me on this page and therefore have removed it as I consider it a personal attack. --ScienceApologist 17:34, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

It is my view of your actions and your interactions with me. It is not a personal attack, it is my experience. J. D. Redding 17:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Referring to specific people as "evil" or "trolls" goes beyond expressing your experience and becomes a personal attack. I see someone else has removed the section; you will probably add it back again, but I will block you for personal attacks if that kind of language is still included when you do, or if it's repeated elsewhere. See WP:NPA -- you can express your opinions of other users, including negative ones, in a way that isn't a personal attack. Mangojuice 18:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

If the person is a internet troll, how i am to describe them? ScienceApologist has intentionally posted derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about me (and, inaddition, other things and people) in an established online community (aka., Misplaced Pages) to bait me (and others) into edit wars, etc ... not to mention, there has been computer attacks and other negative things originating from his computer system J. D. Redding 19:29, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment on actions: describe the actions, not the person. So for instance, everything you just wrote in that above paragraph except the first part in bold... that would be a description of SA's actions from your point of view. Mangojuice 20:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

User:ScienceApologist is trying to remove my comments of experiences here @ wikipedia, and has tried to enlist User:JzG : ANI discussion you might find interesting - assistance? ... I've had to restore this a few times.

Further actions to remove comments :

J. D. Redding 18:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Heimstern has removed my brief discussion related to Misplaced Pages and collaboration .... the repeated editing of this page may force me to move it to another space temporialy ...

J. D. Redding 18:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• Two things you need to know: first, ArbCom explicitly acknowledges that user space may not be used as a soapbox; second, if you continue to publish what you state is the real name of a user who chooses not to identify with that name here, you may be banned. Not just blocked, banned. Outing real identities is at the discretion of the user, not those attacking them. Now here's another small thing: if you persist in linking to the deleted attack on your talk page, then I will delete the history of the page so you can't. Attacks are deleted because they are attacks, linking to the attacks through page histories is completely unacceptable. Guy (Help!) 20:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Free energy suppression

I've globally reverted, but perhaps it was only the shock to see 98 edits of you in the history. If you pls just state what you are trying to achieve at the talk page, I wouldn't revert you restoring your version. --Pjacobi 17:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

rexresearch

With some pain I had to point out that in my opinion the problem with rexresearch links are not spam in the first place. Perhaps yopu may want to add a statement yourself: . --Pjacobi 21:50, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Free energy

Just a quick request. Could you please maybe try to make fewer small edits. If you want to see how things are going to look, it's easier just to use the preview button.

perfectblue 07:04, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Seriously, please stop

Please stop making 100s and 100s of small edits. It makes it impossible to keep track of what exactly is happening.

perfectblue 17:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Please help improve Plug-in hybrid

You are listed as a participant in WikiProject Energy development, so I am asking you to please consider helping to improve the plug-in hybrid article. This is an ad hoc article improvement drive. BenB4 08:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

multiple edits

This is the third request that I am making, please stop making multiple small edits to a single page. You have made 20+ edits in a row sometimes more. This makes it very difficult for editors to follow what you have done or to keep track of a pages revision history.

perfectblue 07:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I am not sure what to do about that. I usually forget about the preview button. And unless I do not dothe edit i need to do, there is not much I can doabout it. J. D. Redding 12:23, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Maglev Train

Thanks for your contributions to Maglev train. Could I bother you to put in your source(s) though? The article is a good article, and putting in unsourced info kinda takes it a step back.--MrFish 14:54, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Megalith

Please stop adding more books to Megalith. There are enough already. As much as Misplaced Pages is not a repository for lists of external links, neither is it a repository for book lists. Have you read any of these books? Secondly, I would like to echo perfectblue's comments from above: please use the preview feature before saving your edits. To do so is a courtesy for other editors, and eases load on the WP servers. This is now the fourth time on your talk page you have been asked. Thank you. — BillC 22:45, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I have access to them in libraries .. and more importantly, most of them are available online. Yes. J. D. Redding 22:48, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Which ones are available online? — BillC 22:50, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Most of the older ones in totality ... and alot of the newer ones in portions (some more, some less) but can be searched through. J. D. Redding 22:55, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

They are accessible in libraries to anyone, a feature common to all books. You haven't addressed my question: have you read these books, or are you adding them as the result of a search? The interval between you adding them was consistent with finding a new title, formatting the reference, and then adding it. You continued to make a multitude of small edits without previewing them, failing to heed my, and others, requests. — BillC 11:38, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Adding referencesand material from books is called "fact based research". Try it. You may like it.

As to the preview thing ... I have always edited wikipeida with smaller edits. If there is a rule or policy that says "no small edits without previewing", then pleaase show me. I am sorry to fail to heed your, and others, requests ... J. D. Redding 13:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Please don't revert without marking your edits as such. Re-adding the occult stuff to the megalith article is not good. And, as everyone else says, please learn how to use preview William M. Connolley 14:32, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

I suggest you consider revising this . If you're going to go adding occult refs to normal articles you'll end up just like before William M. Connolley 14:54, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Any reason for the ignorant (eg., a lack of knowledge or uninformed) and POV (aka., anti-paranormal) edit? J. D. Redding

Please, Reddy, no personal attacks. Remember the last arbitration we went through? --ScienceApologist 15:04, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

First don't threaten me.

Second, my use is not a pejorative. There is a lack of knowledge or uninformed about history and historical studies. Some may be great at the global warming and have knowledge in that field, though. J. D. Redding

From WP:NPA: "Comment on content, not on the contributor." You have no way of knowing the familiarity of any of the editors with any of the subjects, just as we have no way of knowing the familiarity of yourself with any of the subjects. --ScienceApologist 15:09, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

What content contribution? My comment was on the removal of content.

I can know some familiarity of some of the editors. Do you have a history degree?

I can give you my BSc in history, joshua ... J. D. Redding 15:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

You have no way of knowing what degrees any of us hold, nor whether any degrees entitle any of us to decide what is and isn't ignorant with regards to various subjects. You should be proud you graduated from college, but that does not grant you the ability to invoke imprimatur on others. --ScienceApologist 15:16, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Do you have any historical training?

Ther are ways of knowing what degree anybody holds. 1st ask. 2nd, I can search for it. WMC has a biography @ wikipedia. You and I have dealt with each other and I know what your training is (don't really want to put up the links but I can if you want me to).

Knowledge in a field does let some know alil' more than others in a field of study. I would not be too knowledgeable about nuclear physics ... besides the history of it.

BUT when an editor removed reputable and known sources about a article, it's mainly from having a lack of knowledge or being uninformed.

Look up primary sources, secondary sources, and tertiary sources.

J. D. Redding 15:25, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

You are missing the point, Reddi. There is no hierarchy of experts at Misplaced Pages by consensus of the community. You can search for credentials and degrees as much as you want, but this is not Citizendium and there is no hierarchy or vetting process for who is or isn't "knowledgeable" in whatever field. Editors do not have to have a degree to make edits to any article, and more than that you have no way of knowing that all an editor's credentials are accurately and completely compiled on the internet, regardless of how many searches you perform. You have no way of knowing what the reasons are for any editor making any edits here except what they tell you their reasons are. Trying to read into their credentials isn't going to get you very far and is generally considered aggressive for this community. --ScienceApologist 15:31, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Editors do not have to have a degree to make edits .. I agree.

A way of knowing what the reasons are for any editor making any edits? Ask why they did it!

Is there any reason for the uninformed and POV (aka., anti-paranormal) edits? J. D. Redding 15:36, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Block

For repeated violation of WP:NPA to the extent of WP:POINT I've blocked you for a little while. Please be civil William M. Connolley 19:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Member?

OK done. (Emperor 01:21, 22 April 2007 (UTC))

WP:Paranormal

Please stop spamming the pages of users who are in the category. In case you hadn't noticed, there's Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Paranormal/Participants that several people have already added their names onto as it's too big and unwieldy to have the whole list on the main page.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 01:28, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

ok ... too late. had one more to go. will i stay under autoblock? J. D. Redding 01:31, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

15 minutes J. D. Redding

New criticism, comments, and feedback

Block, again

I've blocked you for 31 hours for general disruption as well as personally attacking User:ScienceApologist. I also have reason to believe that you were trying to influence the outcome of Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Paranormal or your attempt to "kick" ScienceApologist out of WP:PARANORMAL—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 03:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

BTW, the people that did "kick" me out of a wikiproject were not blocked. Because they were part of the power structure and have administrator friends. Do you want the link for the time that they did this? J. D. Redding 03:30, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

WOW! Talk about suppression and suppression of dissent. J. D. Redding 03:26, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I feel for you, Reddi. In the end, the only solution is sure to be violence. --Chr.K. 05:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)