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Minor edits

Edits like this are not minor. Please do not mark them as such. --John (talk) 21:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

John; thanks for the welcome, and the correction about minor edits- I'll spend a bit of time on the links you've posted to try to avoid further mistakes.

Gravuritas (talk) 22:31, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

You're very welcome; let me know if you need any help. --John (talk) 05:23, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Gravuritas. This was a nice addition and clarification to Mimeograph. Thanks! Herostratus (talk) 15:34, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Er, hi, Herostratus (good name)- thanks for the thanks. As a new editor I've had some constructive criticism and someone spoiling for a fight, but mostly a sort of editing into the blue yonder where you wonder whether anybody's reading it! I've just had a look around WP and found the top 100 pages etc- do you know whether there is way of finding the viewing figures for e.g. Mimeograph, for instance, or whether it's just you and me that's seen it?

Gravuritas (talk) 19:52, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Trade unions in the United Kingdom

Sorry for that revert. My mistake. ///EuroCarGT 18:56, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

No probs.

Gravuritas (talk) 22:09, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

West Lothian question

Please revert what you have added to West Lothian question, per WP:BRD guidelines. Happy to discuss it on the talk page.

The article is not comparing NI to Scotland. It is suggesting that a possible solution to the West Lothian question would be to reduce the Scottish representation at Westminster to that below the standard ratio of MPs compared with the rest of the UK, as had happened previously in NI. It is suggesting that if the NI example was followed, Scotland would have below the standard ratio. The fact that Scotland currently has a higher ratio is not the point.

Besides that, the section is currently entirely uncited, so combining unsourced facts like this begins to look very like original synthesis. --Escape Orbit 20:18, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi: I've put comment on west Lothian talk page. Gravuritas (talk) 21:11, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Civility

Please read WP:Civility, we can discuss things without "utter twerp" or such rather inflammatory comments. Thanks, Vsmith (talk) 22:49, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Please see WP:RSN

Gravuritas (talk) 00:21, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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Peak oil

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June 2014

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

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You started the reversions by changing the wording away from 'A number of'. You haven't addressed the point of balance that I mention; you've committed a straw man error and don't appear to understand the normal English meaning of 'a number of'. Not much of a record in a couple of paras. I suggest you address the issues on Talk: Tony Blair and spend less time on threats of blocking.

Gravuritas (talk) 21:23, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

I wasn't threatening to block you. I was warning you that edit-warring (three reverts) is a blockable activity. Try not to do it. --John (talk) 04:59, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Yes, that is what the source says

Here's some help if you need it: https://en.wiktionary.org/baisser Shii (tock) 21:29, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

this should be on Talk:Peak oil

Gravuritas (talk) 21:50, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

October 2014

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Wind power, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Chamith (talk) 10:04, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Which word of "(This policy of no original research does not apply to talk pages.)" (from WP:OR) are you having difficulty with?

Gravuritas (talk) 10:52, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Wind power dispute

Hey Gravuritas, don't give up yet if you believe what you are doing is the right thing. So I opened a case at Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution noticeboard. I hope other editors will participate and help us to solve our little arguments . Cheers--Chamith (talk) 16:35, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

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Re Rudyard Kipling

I didn't say "was taken" is incorrect. But it's very awkward and my revised sentence corrects that problem. Rissa, copy editor (talk) 01:19, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

See Talk:Rudyard Kipling

Gravuritas (talk) 09:22, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Engineering...

Gravuritas, thanks for pulling back the edit on engineering. I was not a 100% happy with it either. I think the definition is missing what engineering is applied to i.e., finding a solution, a problem, a project, just not sure how to add that in cleanly... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rctillinghast (talk • contribs) 18:39, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for taking it so well. I think the opening sentence in the leader describes well the range of things that engineers do. I suspect you were trying to get to the purposes- why engineers do what they do- and that opens a can of worms. On the one hand most of the purposes are warm and cuddly- but on the other hand some purposes are more controversial (drowning a river valley for a hydro-electric or irrigation scheme); and we can all probably think of one or two really bad purposes to which engineering has been put. Have fun on WP! (and remember the 4 tildes as sig)

Gravuritas (talk) 19:47, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Engineering vs Science

Sorry but I didn't quite understand your reason of reverting my change on the Engineering page. I just wanted to make the information more coherent here in wiki as both pages of applied sciences and Template:Science state that engineering is a subset of science in a broad sense, alongside healthcare. I'm a layman of this but would like to get a clearer picture. Biomedicinal (talk) 17:01, 3 April 2015

This would probably be better on the appropriate talk page, but here goes.

The Science Template as far as I can see is an attempt to introduce some tree and branch type order to a lot of fields, but the presence of any particular subject in any particular category, or in the template itself hardly constitutes a knock-down argument that this is the case. Try looking up "maths as science" in WP or elsewhere: highly debatable and the existence of maths in the Template:Science is useful but proves nothing.

Reverting to the meat of the argument: Science uses mathematics, but is not mathematics. Engineering uses science but is not science. There is a key difference, visible in the definitions of science and engineering that I have seen. Science involves finding out stuff about the world. Engineering involves doing things to the world. I'd suggest that applied science is finding out useful stuff about the world. Having worked with a lot of scientists and engineers, the difference is also seen in the typical personality types that are attracted to the two fields.

Further, as stated by another editor I think, the linkage of the word application to applied science makes a nonsense of the sentence syntax, as 'application' also included practical knowledge.

Gravuritas (talk) 19:31, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Alright. Got it. I'll figure it out more and thnaks! Biomedicinal (talk) 06:31, 4 April 2015

World Peace Council

In Nuclear disarmament you made an edit so that the WPC is not called a peace organisation. There is no doubt that it was a Soviet Front but it is regarded in reliable sources as a peace organisation. You may not regard it as such, but that is your POV and not for Misplaced Pages. Pelarmian (talk) 10:50, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

The source quoted refers to "combatants" including the World Peace Council. That's not enough to back up your claim that the WPC is a peace organization. Nor is "the clue is in the name", which can only be naïve. Please find something to back up your statement above.

Gravuritas (talk) 11:56, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

See Talk:Nuclear disarmament for further discussion. Pelarmian (talk) 18:38, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

May 2015

Hello, I'm Weegeerunner. Misplaced Pages is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Nuclear disarmament seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Weegeerunner (talk) 16:14, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

You've removed my because you view it as a POV? Don't be silly.

Gravuritas (talk) 17:58, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about that, slight misunderstanding. Weegeerunner (talk) 18:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Deleting other editors' comments

I have reverted this edit of yours, in which you deleted other editors' comments from Talk:Capitalism with the not-very-informative summary of "Tricky". Was there any good reason why you would want to do that? Favonian (talk) 20:18, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

thanks for the revert. No, I didn't want to do that: I was trying to add a comment but editing WP on an iPad, as I sometimes do, occasionally goes wonky. I haven't worked out whether it's a sw bug or my finger trouble: it has happened once before. Not only does the edit go wrong, though, I can't find a 'revert' option on WP on iPad, either, so I can't fix the problem myself immediately.

Gravuritas (talk) 20:32, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

No worries! I eschew modern contraptions like "pads" and "smart" phones in favor of a practically steam-driven laptop. Favonian (talk) 20:35, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Capitalism

You are edit-warring on Capitalism and if you continue you may be blocked. TFD (talk) 16:31, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

You are edit-warring on Capitalism and trying to smokescreen it with a series of irrelevant and sloppy, or plain incorrect, posts on Talk, each of which is taking you about 3 seconds. If you'd tried harder to make a case (or even just tried at all) then I would have postponed the reverts. As it is, it's obvious you either don't have a case, or can't be arsed to make one, despite your blather about my sources being 'in a minority'. So stop wallying about and defend the offending para, as I suspect you are capable of, or concede.

Gravuritas (talk) 17:48, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

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EU referendum aftermath

I disagree with you since some sources (notably this one) state that the target is almost reached, and the guy apparently has people in place to launch the action. On top of which, even if it were dismissed (which I suspect it would be), a legal case against politicians claiming they have mislead the public is almost certainly unprecedented in the UK. This is Paul (talk) 17:24, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Let me admit that a legal case with legs (i.e. which a judge didn't throw out at an early stage), against a politician or group of politicians for having misled the public, would be notable enough to include. But this is several stages short of that situation. A guy has raised some money. Has he raised enough for even a preliminary opinion from a QC heavyweight enough to be more than a joke? The story says that someone is prepared to work at much less than their usual rates, but is that person the real McCoy or just a wannabe? If the brief is a heavy weight, how much money is he going to need to actually begin the action? Remember that the loser pays at least some of the winner's costs, so some meters start clocking up some serious money as soon as you begin the action: withdrawal part-way is very costly. And in the UK nothing happens on no-win no fee other than some ambulance-chasing. Judges in the UK are very keen on staying out of politics, so even if there was a sniff of a cause for action, all sinews would be strained to find a reason for throwing the case out. So all that's happened so far is peanuts and piffle, and the fact that the target has been or has not been reached is utterly insignificant: who says it's enough (oh- maybe the guy that chose the target. And his expertise is- unprecedented constitutional law? Maybe not)

Now the guy that started it is happy cos he wants publicity, and the Indy is happy because they have created an impression, i.e. smeared, some Brexit individuals as liars in a way that cannot be attacked as a libel. And you have participated in that smear. In the hope that is just naivete, wake up. If it's not naivete, utter, utter shame on you

Gravuritas (talk) 18:16, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Well, it was also mentioned by the Financial Times among others. By the way, please be civil, and do be careful about throwing around accusations. Suggesting people are attempting to smear others isn't a very sensible idea. I suggest you refrain from doing so in future. This is Paul (talk) 18:40, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

It was just about barely mentioned by the FT as a minor afterthought in an opinion piece about something else. Unimpressive. I don't 'throw around accusations'. I make a reasoned point above, and you are not engaging with either the reasoning or the supporting facts. Extend your reading beyond the Indy and the Guardian and you'll find that exaggerations and distortions were present on both sides of the campaign, and I would personally ascribe a greater blame to those who created these distortions as part of pre-planned, subedited, drafted and redrafted reports rather than those uttered on the spur of the moment in answer to a journo's question. Full-out lies were rare, and the crowdfunding case will go nowhere: in which case you should be asking yourself the question: why are certain newspapers/websites reporting it? If you can't see that as a smear, then you're not only naïve, you're refusing to wake up.

Gravuritas (talk) 08:37, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

If you care to check through my edit history you'll find that I use a multitude of sources from across the political spectrum (including the Telegraph, the Times, the Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, The Economist, etc), and have even expressed some concern about the availability of sources to balance the argument in this particular article. For example, many are forecasting a recession, but having a brother who's an economist (and who voted for Brexit incidentally) I know there are others who believe Britain's future prospects will be much more favourable. Suggesting I am naive is downright uncivil. Suggesting I am collaborating as part of a smear campaign against those who voted to leave the EU is an accusation, whether you choose to see it or not, and if you continue to make these allegations I will be mentioning you at WP:ANI. Good day to you, This is Paul (talk) 16:44, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I will take your word for your edit history in general, but looking through the refs for the article in question there is a major leaning towards the Indy & The LES (owned by the Indy) with a sprinkling of the Guardian & the BBC, especially since the referendum, when parts of the media don't seem to want to accept the result, and also seem to glory in any signs of damage from the vote. The imbalance of refs should be sounding a warning to all experienced editors that the coverage may be biased. Your recent posting on the talk page shows that you are at least partly aware of the balance problem. Clearly, the actual results & consequences of the vote should be covered by the article, but the use of predictions post-referendum should be heavily downplayed. Furthermore, this a serious, serious issue with huge (genuine) consequences for many people, and in the midst of this then I am afraid that I view warbling about £27,000 or £100,000 as utterly trivial. When it's coupled to 'liars' and 'misconduct in public office' issues thrown at those who the Indy clearly regard as their political opponents, then it is just a smear. And if you further the aims of those doing the smearing, then 'naive' seems gentle enough. While this page is open to all, it must be one of the least-trafficked on WP and so we're not having much more than a private conversation. Complain to who you will.

Gravuritas (talk) 11:14, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Since you have chosen to make reference to these allegations once again, a discussion is now open on the matter. You can find it here if you wish to contribute. This is Paul (talk) 16:20, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Please don't edit war with regard to the British Railway System

Hello there,

privately, you may believe whatever you want, but Misplaced Pages is truth land. Thanks! (Regarding ) --Mathmensch (talk) 15:00, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

BTW: Please have a careful look at: Correlation does not imply causation. --Mathmensch (talk) 15:11, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

See the appropriate Talk page, and don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs, sonny.

Gravuritas (talk) 15:22, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

I think your tone is inappropriate, as well as your editing behaviour. You should most definitely refrain from depicting fringe theories as mainstream and truth, and you should treat others with a certain dignity. Further, please refrain from edit-warring. You have broken the three-edits rule with this edit, which also contains another inappropriate comment in the line of summary. --Mathmensch (talk) 15:42, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Mathmensch (talk) 15:56, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

I've made a constructive suggestion as to how you could move forward regarding the article, by editing small pieces and getting supportive evidence for each change, instead of globally smearing the whole article with your own POV paraphrase of one non-neutral source. If you'd read my comments more carefully you'd see that I have depicted very little as anything- you've just interpreted my opposition to your edit as support for everything currently in the article. I notice you've now applied for deletion of the whole article: where I come from that's called 'throwing your toys out of the pram'. You've also now bothered the administrators, who have better things to do than deal with tantrums. These actions of yours suggest a level of maturity commensurate with my little epithet above.

Gravuritas (talk) 18:02, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Please be polite

Hello there,

please comply with standard rules of politeness. I am displeased with your tone.--Mathmensch (talk) 19:53, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Sure. My standard rules of politeness are:

1. Be polite

2. If someone ascribes views to me which I have not expressed, consider cancelling rule #1

3. If someone insults me by trying to teach me something basic like 'correlation does not mean causation', consider cancelling rule #1.

4. If someone implies that I have not told the truth, or supported untruthfulness, consider cancelling rule #1.

5. If someone performs each of 2, 3, or 4, cancel rule 1 without further consideration.

6. If someone accepts that they have transgressed rules 2,3, or 4, revert to rule 1.

I hope the rules of politeness are now clear to you. After having a tantrum, a toddler is often displeased with the person who corrects them. That's life.

Gravuritas (talk) 20:24, 4 September 2016 (UTC)