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Hewitt's AfD

I have restored Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Carl Hewitt, because archives of deletion debates should be kept intact. If you disagree, I would like to ask you which specific part of this deletion debate violates which specific part of WP:BLP. Thank you. You can reply here. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Arbitration notice

This is to inform you that you have been included as a party in a request for Arbitration here ——Martin ☎ Ψ Φ—— 05:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Mediation

I have proposed a mediation on the underlying issue at New antisemitism. The request is here. It's up to you whether or not you want to participate. I am asking everyone who has been extensively involved in discussions on the talk page. *** Crotalus *** 05:23, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Source search

Found one source (maybe more but I failed to BM them) attributing Hitler's Final Solution to Andrew Jacksons policies on Indian removal or Total War. See: Michael Fitzgerald. “Manifest Destiny: American Imperial Myth, Then & Now.”. Is this reliable and do you and other editors of The Holocaust page know of other sources? Alatari (talk) 17:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: Username

Thanks! Is that because it mucks up the RfA Report table? ;) _{WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN} 17:05, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

WTBDWK

Hi Slim,

I'm going to try to engage you independent of the talkpage on the WTB article because I think there is way too much unrelated POV-pushing chatter going on there.

On Talk:WTBDWK you argued that the version I propose reverting to contains OR and embellishments. I don't see anything like this in that version. Furthermore, I see plenty of other articles on similarly controversial movies that are treated in a similar fashion. For example Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and An Inconvenient Truth. Obviously, WTB in the movie discusses scientific ideas. It is useful, therefore, to delineate which sections of the movie are properly framed vis-a-vis the scientific community (who own those concepts). You can see more of my rationale for discussing pseudoscience on my user page. We may have to take this to private communication in order to avoid the crowds (if you are willing).

ScienceApologist (talk) 19:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Only 20 minutes? Yeah, you need to watch the whole thing. There's a lot of places in the movie where they talk about "science". Sometimes they get the explanation okay. Sometimes not. That's what's important. If you don't want to watch it, maybe you could just read the screenplay transcript: . There's a lot in there that's clearly more than "philosophy". ScienceApologist (talk) 19:57, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Citation templates example

Hi Slim,

re.Misplaced Pages talk:Citing sources/Citation templates example

Can you let me know what browser you're using? When I go into edit mode with Firefox I'm editing in a monopitch teletype text style font and I'm working in a scrolling window that's about 400 pixels high.

You put an edit summary "it needs to look the way it looks in edit mode" but reverting back to a view which seems to show a normal proportionally spaced typeface (as in a published page) and no scrolling window, so I'm a bit confused because the way it looks in edit mode is what I was trying for.

If it does turn out that we are at cross purposes with what we're each trying to present here, perhaps you could create your own example page, and the main talk page could have links to each.

Thanks,

--SallyScot (talk) 19:26, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Hey there, I'm writing to inform you that I have withdrawn my request for adminship, which was currently standing at 11 supports, 22 opposes and 6 neutrals. This count could have been so much better if I had understood policy, although I believe that 17 questions is a lot to ask of a user's first RfA. I will take on all comments given at the RfA and will endeavour to meet the high expectations of the RfA voters. _{WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN} 21:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

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WP:OR

ChrisO left a comment on WT:NOR when he made his first edit to the policy. You've reverted him twice, but haven't left any comment there about why you find his edit problematic. As the recent discussion on WT:POLICY and WT:CONSENSUS show, there are a decent number of experienced editors who do feel that bold edits to policy documents are fine. In any case, it would help if you would fully explain your objections to the edit, or just improve his text to reflect them rather than removing it outright. Personally, I think ChrisO's concerns are already covered via the inclusion of "photographs" in the PSTS section, but I don't know if you have other issues. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:53, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I have a lot of respect for you, as you are a very experienced editor here, so I am surprised to see you've reverted three times on NOR within two hours. I tend to agree with you that the change isn't needed, though. — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:06, 21 January 2008 (UTC)