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Pages re-rated by Andy Dingley

• Talk:Doctor Octopus (re-rate - not a significant topic for robotics) [1]

User_talk:Andy_Dingley/Archive_2010_August

Robotics

You just proved my point for hiding it with your edit summary - you perfectly described a Robot - Robotics is NOT robots.

The reason that was hidden was because it is to do with Robots and not Robotics. Your reverting of my edit shows that you did not really understand the difference.

"Robotics is the engineering science and technology of robots, and their design, manufacture, application, and structural disposition. Robotics is related to electronics, mechanics], and software."

You can see that I did not remove it from the article Robot.

I would appreciate it if you undid your reversion.

Chaosdruid (talk) 22:30, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Robotics is NOT robots. Hmmm...

So you're happy to include RUR under robotics, but not The Golem? That would make more sense if you were excluding RUR!

"Robotics is related to electronics, mechanics], and software." is good as far as it goes, but your interpretation of "mechanics" is far too narrow. Clay is mankind's first plastic material. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:57, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

RUR is mentioned as the birth of the name. My definition ? It is not my definition. The Golem is not really anything to do with robotics - it is ok on the Robots page but that is not the issue - there is nothing in the Golem that has to do with robotics, and if you want to be pedantic then where are the mutliple parts that it is made up from ? At least the robot in RUR was made from various different parts and so does fit in the description to a great extent. Golem does not - other wise we would have to include "The Mummy" and "Zombies".

Chaosdruid (talk) 18:32, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

So it's only "robotics" if it's composed from multiple parts? Ridiculous. As to the other, then The Golem was constructed, unlike zombies. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Lol - I think you maybe went a little too far with that one...Name me one robot that is comprised of only one part. Chaosdruid (talk) 22:40, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

If I had the power, I would already have indef blocked you merely you using "LOL" on my talk page.

Let us assume that the good Rabbi Loew didn't merely scrape up mud from the Vltava and leave it as a homogeneous blob, instead he shaped it (and certainly inscribed "truth" upon the forehead). So the Golem is a single part, but not a simple or undifferentiated part.

Now go and educate yourself upon micromachining. What's the difference? Andy Dingley (talk) 23:09, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

An indef block for lol? You really shouldn't be given the bit then.

Go and educate myself? you need to learn some people skills before conversing. Micromachines are not robots - nor do they have any relevence to the topic at hand. Golem is definately bigger than 1 cm.

I am obviously wasting my time talking to you as you really seem to be unable to accept that you might have been wrong.

Chaosdruid (talk) 03:32, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

May I put my head over the parapet without being shot? It seems to me that certain items of fiction such as Golem and RUR inspired the concept of the robot. Since then a number of technologies and protocols have been developed which are the science that has evolved from the thing. Maybe Asimov's 3 laws first inspired the concept of robotICS. In most fields the science came first then the thing (e.g. lasers?). So my own personal opinion is that Golem belongs on the robot page and probably the same is true of RUR. There are quite a lot of issues which might be misplaced over the set of articles and I recommend a panel of editors to really get down and define what belongs in what article and create a set of rules. Or maybe there is one already? Then it will be possible to undo or revert someone's edit knowing that the other editors will back you up. Just my two cents... Robotics1 (talk) 11:12, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

I know Andy is involved with editing robotics and robot articles and would really like him to join the robotics project. I appreciate that editors have different opinions and that discussions can get heated over impereceptions of intent. I am the sort of person that tries to make light of a disagreement and I try to resolve those disagreements. In the spirit of continued debate I have stricken my conclusion from the previous post.

It is true that there is a great deal of work needed and as far as I know the Robotics project is the only one that deals specifically with these matters. The project has a wide scope, covering things from Manga robots to AI and I am sure that with more people involved it would be easier to manage the scope and problems that have arisen.

As for the current discussion I am not sure where to take it. I tried to make light of Andy's comments in an attempt to avert conflict but it may be that he took offence at my first post. I do not know but, without resolving this matter and at least talking to each other about how this has happened, I am a little concerned that Andy would not wish to join due to our discussion. In a direct action I am asking Andy to please reconsider the original set of circumstances that brought us here. That said; I did nothing that could have caused offence as far as I can see. Perhaps Andy can shed light on the reasons for his tone and how we can progress from here. After all Rabbi Loew did not really make a Golem did he ? it is a work of fiction as is RUR and I, Robot

Chaosdruid (talk) 15:02, 13 August 2010 (UTC)