User talk:Anachronist/Archives/2007

...natural explanations for the development of life such as evolution

Sorry about that: That read a bit differently than I intended: My thought process was "Well, they also try and use it to deny abiogenesis, don't they? And they seem to be branching out a little in what they attack..." - in other words, I had intended it as a notable example from a list of related scientific theories. Didn't do a very good job at that, though. Adam Cuerden ^talk 03:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

That's okay, I make those kinds of wordsmithing mistakes all the time. I figured I knew what you were trying to say, so I corrected it. I think that Intelligent Design article is the most heavily word-smithed article on Wikipedia. Seems like almost every phrase in every sentence has been discussed, dissected, cited, etc. -Amatulic 17:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

MBA specialization

In your revert of my addition to MBS specializations, you gave as a reason "We're not highlighting the offerings of specific schools in this article, and there's no reason to create an exhaustive list of specialized concentrations."

There were five. I added one. Since you claim to know what "We're" doing here, perhaps you can explain to me how six is exhaustive, but five is not.

Thank you for your information.

My intention was not to revert an additional concentration. Six is not exhaustive, but highlighting the school was inappropriate, so I reverted your edit. I have no problem with adding additional concentrations; however, there are too many specialized ones (I've seen at least 30) to list in the article. -Amatulic 17:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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Solid Angle Formula

Hi,

I'm fairly certain that there is an error in the formula you posted for the solid angle subtended by a rectangular pyramid in the solid angle article. The formula does not reduce to the correct version in the limit of small angles (where it should simply be $a\times b$; your formula reduces to $a\times b^{2}$). The error, I believe, arose in the limits that were used in integrating over the polar angle. These limits should be $\left({\pi \over 2}-{b \over 2},{\pi \over 2}+{b \over 2}\right)$, not $(0,b)$.

Also, I had simplified the formula for the special case of a square pyramid (I do not understand the source of the current formula; can you explain?) and had placed it below the more general case of the rectangular pyramid, as this seemed more sensible.

I notice that as I was writing this you removed the rectangular pyramid formula. Before I re-enter the correct version, I'll wait for your reply. I'm happy to provide a more detailed derivation if you like.

By the way, I believe your previous formula for the rectangular pyramid is actually correct for a triangular pyramid.

Bgerke 18:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I know it's an error. I inadvertantly put in a version of a formula for a triangular wedge or something similar. Also, my description is wrong: A true rectangular pyramid consists of four planes that would intersect the sphere forming great circle arcs. That's not what I was trying to define. Instead I described a latitute-longitude rectangle (lines of latitude aren't great circle arcs). The derivation can be done by double-integrating the area element given on Mathworld, or it can be derived algebraically as shown on Dr. Math's forum.

I'm not sure how to do the true rectangular pyramid yet. If you want to add it, feel free.

Also, I didn't create that square pyramid formula. It looks too messy to be real. -Amatulic 18:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

1. For what we were both trying to compute, the formula I posted was correct, I think. I derived it by integrating the solid angle element near the equator of a unit sphere.

2. You are right that this was not actually a rectangular pyramid; I had made the same mistake. That is the formula I was seeking when I first started this process, and I'm pretty sure I can derive it. I'll do so now and post it later.

3. I'm new to editing Wikipedia. Is there some provision for sidebars or footnotes where I can put up a more complete derivation of these things? It seems a useful thing to do so long as it's not cluttering up the main article. It also seems worthwhile to add a note pointing out the difference between a pyramid and a lattitude-longitude rectangle.

Bgerke 19:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

There's a way to put footnotes in an article (you enclose your footnote in <ref>...</ref> tags, and put a section called ==References== at the bottom of the article, containing one line: <div class="references-small><references/></div>). You'll see that in other articles with footnotes. However, that may not be appropriate here. It's probably enough to put your derivation in the talk page, so that anyone who questions the formula in the article can see where it came from. -Amatulic 20:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

It was trickier than I expected, but I worked it out. Will post it later tonight or tomorrow. Incidentally, the regular-pyramid formula is correct but can be simplified somewhat. Bgerke 02:46, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Great! I look forward to seeing it. By the way, there is a prohibition on posting original research on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia:No original research) but after reading it over, I don't think it applies to posting mathematical formulas derived using common well-known mathematical procedures. It might qualify as "synthesis" but it isn't being used to advance a position, so it's probably OK. -Amatulic 18:55, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

It's posted, and I linked to my derivation from the talk page as you suggested. Thanks for your guidance. Bgerke 20:52, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Linking to other accounts

I meant linking to them on your request. To do so, you can do it with an interwiki link, such as m:User:Titoxd, es:User:Titoxd, commons:User:Titoxd, mw:User:Titoxd, v:User:Titoxd, fr:User:Titoxd, ru:User:Titoxd, pt:User:Titoxd, etc.

The reason I asked was to check how many edits you had in other projects. After the single unified login transition, if there's several accounts with the same name across several projects, the account with most edits gets assigned the global account, and receives the login everywhere. If that is the case, then it may not be necessary to request for an usurpation right now, if it is going to be done automatically later on. (Although, keep in mind that SUL has been promised for a while, and only until recently work has been done on it, so no one knows how long it is going to take to finish.) Titoxd^(?!?) 18:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, my Anachronist account has more edits in Wiktionary and Commons than the same name account here on Wikipedia (which has 1 edit, in 2002). So what do I do, put redirects on all my user pages, redirecting to the Anachronist Wikipedia account, which isn't mine? That seems rather subversive. Also, all my edits as 'Amatulic' wouldn't change to the new name. I'd have to abandon this Amatulic account, no? -Amatulic 18:43, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Invite to participate in Wine Newsletter

Hello! I am curious if you would like to participate in our Wine Newsletter "Wiki Winos" feature which is a get to know you section of the new Wine Newsletter that we are trying to develop to foster more of a community sense within the wine project. The feature is a questionnaire that you are free to answer any or all questions on that is located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter/Wiki-Winos. Please post any response or feedback on my talk page. Thanks for your time and consideration! Agne^Cheese/^Wine 13:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello Amatulic,

Thanks for trying to keep the Talk:Robert Prechter page in good shape, you made the edit when I was also working on it. It was my first time trying to archive the text, which was a mess -- I thought archiving was a good idea following the Arb Committee decision involving the article. Rgfolsom 17:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I've never figured out how to archive anything cleanly either. I end up having to clean up after myself. -Amatulic 17:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Video journalism third opinion

Hi Amatulic! Thank you very much for posting your opinions on the Video journalism article. I wrote a reply to your message, and I hope you will have the time to take a look at it, and maybe write a reply. Thank you! Mackan 22:12, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Third opinion at User_talk:Awiseman#Third_opinion

Please see my reply at User_talk:Awiseman#Third_opinion. Thanks! 67.101.243.74 22:43, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Amtaulic. Is there anything I should do now? The user disagrees with your opinion, so I'm worried that if I restore the messages they removed it'll just start over again. --AW 13:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Please see my reply at User_talk:Awiseman#Third_opinion. Thanks again. 67.101.243.74 21:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Stevia

Your hard work has paid off. Congrats! - Mtmelendez ^{(Talk|UB|Home)} 02:29, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Response from Marvin Shilmer

Conversation removed; essentially duplicated at Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses#Revert Rule Violation Allegations

Third opinion at Template talk:LandmarkForum

• Please see my comment / citations provided in response to the points that you brought up. And of course, thank you for your time. Yours, Smee 22:53, 8 May 2007 (UTC).

ID "derivativations"

Hah! ;-) Thank you so much for catching that! (;-/ And yes, "cognates" well replaces either "derivatives" or "derivations " ... Kenosis 17:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I noticed the word only because that sentence had been touched for another reason and I happened to check the diff. I went "huh?" and spent a couple minutes failing to find any definition. I got "cognates" directly from Wikisource:Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District/2:Context#Page 32 of 139. -Amatulic 18:17, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

See my comments on talk. Cognates is the wrong word, whether the judge used it or not is really irrelevant. &#0149;Jim62sch&#0149; 21:36, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. -Amatulic 21:37, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

User_talk:Reddi

Mind if I jump in there and give a Third Opinion? You were first, I admit, but I had already read through some of the pages when your opinion appeared, and I am going to pursue a different angle. --User:Krator (t c) 20:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Go right ahead. I don't really know what's going on. -Amatulic 20:56, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Writing it, then. --User:Krator (t c) 21:00, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

This is the first time I started and didn't finish a 3O. I am not going to do this one, it is too ambiguous. --User:Krator (t c) 21:12, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

That's for sure. I did the best I could with it, but until the dispute (which unquestionably exists) becomes much less ambiguous, I don't see what else I can say. -Amatulic 21:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

User_talk:Huw4beynon

You beat me to it; thanks for placing the warning there. Colonel Tom 22:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

• Umm ... after your "Only warning", the user has been warned again twice. Given your original warning, a block would seem to be the appropriate course of action. Cheers, Colonel Tom 12:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • After a final warning, anyone else who comes to the user's talk page to post a warning about further infractions should instead report the vandalism on WP:AIV rather than merely post further warnings. That's why warnings have dates and levels on them. I noticed the other warnings without a corresponding report on WP:AIV so I reported it, and the user was blocked for 48 hours. -Amatulic 21:29, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Third Opinion - Elvria Arellano

Can you please take a look at my comments to your post (and rationale for my arguments above it) when you get a chance? Thanks! LordPathogen LordPathogen 00:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

300 Jews in Singapore??

Um, are you sure there are only 300 Jews in Singapore? If you actually believe this, could you please provide a citation for such?Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 19:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I provided a citation in my comment on Talk:Singapore. Because there is an ambiguity concerning whether a "Jew" is one who practices Judaism or simply belongs to the culture, it is inappropriate to lump the miniscule population of Jews in Singapore as a religious following. As to being unsourced, the Singapore census doesn't list Jews, so all we have to go on are the "censuses" of other Jews who take the trouble to count things. -Amatulic 20:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Request for Third Opinion

template:History of Manchuria is suffering from extensive revert warring, and discussion is heading nowhere. A RfC was filed, but was only able to get one outside commentor[1]. Please provide a third opinion on whether template:History of Manchuria should be titled History of Manchuria[2] or History of Northeast China[3][4] to facilitate dispute resolution. Thank you. 08:45, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in the request for third opinion on The Ocean Hunter article. Please note, however, that the user who requested the thid opinion is ignoring your suggestion for an external link and is instead deleting the external links and the other material from the article. He's also refusing the other editor's suggstion for a separate article. Care to chime in again? I'm just confused that someone would ask for a third opinion and then ignore the suggestions for a compromise and delete everything. --164.107.222.23 04:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, third opinions aren't binding, but I'll try to add another comment.

King of the Hill

I was trying to verify informaiton on the culture part, where luby's was mentioned. how is the source irrelevent? Onopearls 21:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Per WP:EL external links are made available on articles so that readers can gain further information relevant to the subject of the article. While a Luby's imitation is featured in some episodes of King of the Hill, a link to the Luby's restaurant web site doesn't really offer information that illuminates the TV show. The article text already wikilinks to the Luby's article which has a link to the Luby's website. That should be sufficient. No need to add an irrelevant external link. -Amatulic 21:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying. Onopearls 21:44, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Pugs

I appreciate that the WikiPedia is a global encyclopedia - but the one thing lacking about Pugs (and other breeds) is the fact that lots of dogs are bought on a whim and then dumped. Highlighting a Rescue might be of help to educate people. Perhaps if I write a specific article on rescues? Can I then list the various rescues in the USA and perhaps Europe?

I re-added without considering commenting first.... please remove the rescue group section and I will check here for your reply. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.100.35.237 (talk • contribs) 20:14, 18 June 2007

I noticed someone else reverted your re-addition of the external link.

A general article about dog rescue organizations would be useful (or animal rescue, not just dogs). Such an article already exists: Rescue group (not a descriptive title, but I found it on the animal welfare article). There it might be appropriate to highlight some organizations in external links. Even better would be an external link to a collection of links to animal rescue organizations (if such a collection exists on the web) - that way the article doesn't accumulate a big list of links, but readers can still find a resource of rescue organization links.

Articles about various types of pets (dogs, cats, ferrets, etc.) that tend to get abandoned should probably have a wikilink in the "See also" section to animal welfare and rescue group. -Amatulic 21:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

template:History of Manchuria

Wiki pokemon is now trying to replace template:History of Manchuria with template:History of Northeast China, so I have nominated template:History of Northeast China on TfD(Template for Deletion) for POV forking here. Please help reach a consensus on this issue. Cydevil38 20:17, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Singapore

As of my last read, the only discussion on the talk page was: "Removed biased text "Despite wealth and a high standard of living". Does it mean that wealthy countries with high standards of living cannot execute people? It is clearly biased text added in by some Human Rights person" .. now there is meaningful discussion, so I'll participate in that process without making further changes to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxsht9 (talk • contribs) 2007-07-11

Um... Talk:Singapore#Removal of Biased Text already had several paragraphs of discussion the day before you restored that text in the article. The issue was also brought up way back in May in Talk:Singapore#False claim about Singapore being number 1 but nobody responded to that comment.

I have also been guilty of making edits without first reading the talk page the same day. It happens to all of us now and then. -Amatulic 01:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

American Biographical Institute

I wouldn't bother continuing to respond to Dominique. It's clear she doesn't want to admit the award she got was more or less phoney and is willing to ignore the obvious to keep herself convinced. -- Mwalcoff 02:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, a third opinion was requested. An offerer of a third opinion has an obligation to monitor the article and talk page for a while. Usually I stay engaged until it looks like the disputants have come to an agreement, or until the situation looks hopeless - in which case arbitration may be necessary. -Amatulic 02:51, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

smoker???

guess u r a smoker...better quit before it quits you... regards to your family...MULAZIMOGLU 07:10, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Presumptious, aren't you? I am not a smoker. Never have been, nor are any of my relatives. On Wikipedia, the integrity of articles is more important than how I feel about the subject. -Amatulic 18:36, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you both would stop bickering/reverting and contribute to the article. See my edits there, please. HG | Talk 10:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me? I reorganized and improved the entire religion section. Unsourced original research doesn't belong in it — especially when repeatedly added back without reason or comment, it's vandalism. Your edits, on the other hand, are a vast improvement; far more than I could have done. Thanks. -Amatulic 16:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the whole religion section is looking much better, thanks. Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about the balance of the section yet. It seems to me that both the Islamic and Christian sections deserve to be expanded. As you can see, we built up the Judaism piece and eventually spun it off. Maybe that would happen here too, provided we can invite more collaborators. Take care. HG | Talk 21:04, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. It looks like the Islam section got messed up again. Any idea why? Would you mind restoring it? Thanks. HG | Talk 11:48, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Not sure to what you are referring. It looked OK to me. Someone converted several references to footnotes, which was an improvement. I just went in and made minor formatting corrections, and removed a repeated sentence and red wikilink. It's a pretty good section, I think. -Amatulic 17:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, luckily I managed to fix it before you saw it. But now maybe you can help integrate what I just found -- tobacco protest and tobacco fatwa, pretty well written articles already, interesting stuff, not sure how to weave all the materials together. Go for it! HG | Talk 23:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Male pregnancy

You got a response on the Talk page. I am not sure how to reason with this person. They have been heavy on the reverts, and it seems that either English is their second language or they are just not very good at typing. I find this person's grasp of the core tenets of WP:V and WP:OR and WP:CS to be weak, at best. They can barely write well enough to communicate, never mind compose an encyclopedia article. They seem to want to use the article as a vehicle to espouse fringe views. What can be done? 75.61.93.60 04:40, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I've half a mind to request semi-protection for the article to block all anonymous edits until the dispute is resolved on the talk page rather than by reverting. In any case, the other anonymous editor appears to have given up reverting and instead seems to be satisfied with tagging a section of the article with "original research" and "disputed" tags. That's fine by me. -Amatulic 03:26, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Jebbrady RFC

I've opened an RFC/U on Jebbrady here: I'm notifying you because you tried to help resolve the ongoing dispute earlier this year. --SarekOfVulcan 21:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

*headdesk* Thanks for the fix.--SarekOfVulcan 13:47, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. Good job summarizing the issues. I'm going to wait a while to see Jebbrady's response before I endorse anything. In my third opinion I offered on Talk:Herbert W. Armstrong, I felt both sides of the dispute had some merit. -Amatulic 17:50, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. For example, I've come to feel strongly that the accusations from that book should not be mentioned, since it's a single source. And I know I wasn't always as temperate in my own actions as I should have been. --SarekOfVulcan 03:41, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Machu Picchu content move to wikitravel

I have reverted your edit on wikitravel. Unfortunately wikipedia's GFDL and wikitravel's CC-BY-SA 1.0 licences are not compatible, so we can not simply copy material from wikipedia to wikitravel --NJR ZA 20:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I didn't simply copy material. I have re-reverted your reversion, and made further improvements. My original edit summary was a bit misleading; I didn't merely move content, but extensively revise it. The "Get In" section of Machu Picchu is now much better than either version on Wikitravel or Wikipedia. -Amatulic 22:24, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Please don't put that citation back in

I have removed it four times now, each time someone has put it back in. As I detailed on the talk page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Intelligent_design#Poll

The citation that was in place is not the correct citation, please click on the link that you added and you will see that it is the wrong poll, it is a poll of Ohio voters not the poll of scientists that is being referenced. By all means go and find the correct poll and put it in, but don't assume that I was vandalising - I was removing the link because it is the wrong link. Sad mouse 18:49, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

The correct citation is at http://www.nmidnet.org/Press%20Release%201.doc - why didn't you use that instead of tag the article with "citation needed"? That document clearly states how the Sandia Labs scientists were polled, and what the results were. The link is found on IDnet New Mexico's page http://www.nmidnet.org/polling.html -Amatulic 18:58, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Don't blame me for you putting the incorrect citation in, I wasn't the one who didn't bother checking before reverting an edit. Sad mouse 19:02, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and I didn't check either; all I saw initially was your removal of a citation without explanation in the edit summary, so my reaction was automatic. Just now I was about to put the correct citation in, but I see somebody beat me to it. Anyway, the issue seems resolved now. -Amatulic 19:05, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

It was in the edit summary the first three times I did it, and had a section on the talk page. No harm done, I guess people tend to assume vandalism on an article like ID. Sad mouse 19:08, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Intelligent Design

I do not think that the following comments which you removed are "unproductive/inflammatory".

"This article only scores about three points out of ten for clarity. It is not a good example of the quality of Wikipedia mikeL (hello SineBot) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.97.161.230 (talk) 22:13, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

It's an excellent "example of the quality of Wikipedia". It shows Wikipedia bias, Wikipedia mediocrity, Wikipedia pettiness, and Wikipedia groupthink. All in a single article. 207.190.198.130 22:35, 12 October 2007 (UTC) "

Moreover you should not remove material that you do not like from discussion pages.... From WPrefactoring.... refactoring of talk pages must preserve the full intentions of the original authors..... Those comments were made seriously and in good faith but there seems to be little point in restoring them. I wonder if you will remove this as well.

Sincerely 77.97.161.230 10:20, 13 October 2007 (UTC)mikeL

The comments were rightly removed because they were not conducive to improving the article. Rather, the comments were inflammatory and non-constructive, put there solely for someone to vent and editorialize. WP:REFACTOR permits removal in such instances. -Amatulic 17:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello Amatulic

How clever of you to know what my motives are . I did not know that I intended to inflame or “vent” (whatever that means).I thought my comments might encourage others to improve the article.

To be more directly constructive:-

The content is not intrinsically difficult. It seems to have been obscured by over enthusiastic editing.

The article is so long and it contains so much detail that the reader gets lost trying to sort out the key parts. It uses obscure expressions and references (teleological argument, methodological naturalism and so on). There is a lot of repetition and there are unnecessary statements of who said what.

The whole thing reads as if the writers were exercising their interest in the subject instead of trying to explain it clearly to the rest of us.

I have read WPrefactor carefully several times. I can not find anything to justify removing the comments. There is no obligation to follow the guidelines but you are likely to be challenged if you do not. Here are some extracts for you to think about:-

“ Content to remove

Superfluous - Content that is entirely and unmistakably irrelevant.

Refactoring should only be done when there is an assumption of good faith by editors who have contributed to the talk page..... If another editor objects to refactoring then the changes should be reverted. “

“Provide links to the original, uncut version, so others can check your changes, and if necessary go back to the original to clarify what an author actually said. This combination of refactoring and archiving will often prevent complaints that information was lost. Make it explicit that you have refactored something so no one is misled into thinking this was the original talk page. “

Wikipedia articles should inform readers. Not confuse them.

I have just looked at the Intelligent Design Articles in December 2001. They were very clear and no doubt. would seem simplistic and imprecise to recent contributors but they do give a clear introduction to the topic. One of those texts ( the Revision as of 02:33, 1 December 2001, for example ) could be added, almost unedited as a brief introduction to the current article. You might like to do this. It would help readers and it would also demonstrate your good faith.

Best wishes from 77.97.161.230 18:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)mikeL

If you had written constructive comments like above in the talk page, you wouldn't have been reverted. Odd how you feel it's necessary to quote WP:REFACTOR to me; what you quoted above was indeed superfluous, a complaint about the article without identifying exactly what was wrong or how it should be improved. You were more specific in your comments above; why not write them on Talk:Intelligent design instead? -Amatulic 19:32, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Sermon

Thanks for your remarkably quick support for the NPOV check on Sermon. I was so angry when I read the article. I'd just written an article on the Welsh wikipedia on the same subject (cy:Pregeth). Just a stub at present but at least it's inclusive. When I followed the interwiki link to here I couldn't believe what I saw. I'm pretty much occupied most of the time on cy. (user name Anatiomaros) so don't do that much on en. - we're a small crew trying to cover everything on the Welsh wikipedia! - but would gladly contribute if the change goes ahead. Regards, Enaidmawr 23:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't offended by the Sermon article; it's a rather good article actually, but focuses on Christianity.

I don't understand Welsh, but a translation to English would be useful. That article could be called "Sermon" with pointers to "Sermon (Christianity)" (the current "Sermon" article on en) and any others.

I want to wait a bit for others to respond, but after a couple weeks, the procedure would be: (1) Move "Sermon" to "Sermon (Christianity)". This will convert "Sermon" to a redirect page. (2) Edit the redirect page "Sermon", replacing the redirect link with your more inclusive version.

If you want, you can create a subfolder on your userpage for draft articles. Or you can create it on mine, if you want me to post your translation. -Amatulic 23:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I suppose I should have made it clearer that I was not offended by the article as such, in fact I'd agree with you that it's quite a good article on Christian Sermons. I'm not motivated by some "anti-Christian" agenda either, in fact I've written, or contributed to, quite a few articles on Christianity, both on cy. and here. It was the context and the clear implication that a sermon was purely a Christian concept (i.e. its content, POV, the infobox and category) that annoyed me and prompted me to act. Your suggestions for the editing move are pretty much what I had in mind, using the automatic redirect to create a new, inclusive, Sermon article. I'm not promising hours of work on this - as I said, I've got more than enough to do already - but will gladly help. Let's sit back for now and see how things develop over the next few weeks. Enaidmawr 00:30, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

No love for the cat pee

Thanks for adding the note. Hopefully that will take care of things. :) Though as someone who owns cats, I can't imagine how that term ever gain such common currency. :p Agne^Cheese/^Wine 19:13, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

And I can't figure out how anybody came up with that "official" term for a wine characteristic. I've never tasted actual cat pee myself (who has?). I can imagine it has a certain odor, but I've never smelled a urine-like odor in any Sauvignon Blanc (I've smelled it in other wines, all white, including Chardonnay). -Amatulic 19:19, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I think it is used more in the context of aroma rather then taste (at least I hope so!). I've smelled it a few times in some New Zealand Sauvignon blancs but they were certainly not enjoyable wines. For me, the smell seems to be a tip off that the wine is going to be a little too vegetable for my taste. I'm more incline to the more floral Savignons. Agne^Cheese/^Wine 19:35, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Nur Ali Elahi

Thanks for weighing in. I am not actively involved with the article (nor part of the dispute), but I have some history with one of the involved parties. Thanks again, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:02, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Bangladeshi Visa

Hello Amatulic

According to TIMATIC[5], starting November 14, 2007, "nationals of Malaysia and Singapore can no longer make use of the visa on arrival facility and are required to obtain their visa prior to their arrival". Cybercicada 01:42, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I figured you might have had a reason. I would have preferred you replaced what you deleted with a note to that effect rather than simply delete the entry on Bangladesh without explanation. -Amatulic 01:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Robert Fulton

Can you please stop the new user on the Robert Fulton page from writing obscene things and vandalizing the page. Thank you!--Persianhistory2008 (talk) 23:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Robert Fulton is under attack! Again and again they screw it up. Not sure what to do with it?--Persianhistory2008 (talk) 07:41, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm unable to stop anyone from doing anything; I'm not an administrator here, just another editor. All I (or any other editor) can do is place vandalism warnings on the user's talk page and after the final warning, report the abuse at WP:AIV. I've also been away from Wikipedia for a week or so and just checked in. The Robert Fulton article seems stable now. -Amatulic (talk) 14:05, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Alice in Wonderland (film)

Nothing personal. I have the original. It's weird. Just didn't think Amazon should be in there. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 00:19, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I revised it to say "mainstream DVD retailers" or something like that. You can't get it from Subversive Cinema or from the site to which they link. An email exchange revealed that I could buy it from Amazon.com, and sure enough, Amazon has it. So I mentioned that in the article, but you're right, it wasn't necessary to single out Amazon. -Amatulic (talk) 00:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Zinfandel

I added the comment on the older issue just to purposefully add extra emphasis.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC (talk) 21:18, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

"MBA Ranking Resources" reason for update.

Hello Amatulic,

I removed the first MBA Ranking Resources “Compilation of business school rankings” this is not a qualified MBA ranking resource and as such is not relevant for this section: promotion of an advertising website with outdated rankings.

Updated the “Top 50 MBA programmes as determined by the United Kingdom Government” and included the date then I realised that this had been included in “Reference and Notes” and does not actually have anything to do with MBA rankings.

I hope you can see my reason for the update?

Best regards,

--Studio1st (talk) 01:33, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

I can understand your reasoning. Allow me to explain mine.

As someone who maintains the article regularly, I may have even added those links. If I didn't, then you can bet I and others examined them closely when they appeared! The fact that they have survived the scrutiny of several regular editors over the past year or so is an indication of consensus. As to the specific links:

• The Marr and Kirkwood site (Compilation of business school rankings) is the only known resource for side-by-side comparisons from different popular sources, it has been around for many years, and is a well-established reference cited by many other sites, including university web sites. Looking at what it displays now, it appears the rankings are updated as they become available for reproduction (USNWR is the only 2007 ranking shown). In any case, the top schools don't change much from year to year, although the ordering might, so rankings from 2004 are still useful. I don't remember the site being ad supported when I first saw it 10 years ago. I do see ads there now, but the site still doesn't look overtly commercial. I recall it's maintained by a couple of business school professors, but I could be wrong.
• Official sources shouldn't be deleted. The "Top 50 MBA programmes" is one such source. While it's true it doesn't display those 50 programs in rank order (and a government shouldn't be playing favorites like that), it does list what the UK government considers the top programs ranked above all others. Therefore, it's valid to include it as a ranking resource, simply to show another source of top schools. Yes, it's also cited in the article, so you could argue that it's redundant to include it in the ranking resources list. However, it's there for completeness. Remove it, and someone else is likely to come along and notice it's cited but not listed, and restore the link.

The other reason I reverted your edit was because you unintentionally destroyed several inter-language links at the bottom of the article (specifically the ones in non-Western languages like Russian and Japanese). Before editing another page, please make sure your browser is using a character set that supports international characters. If you use Windows, Arial or Times New Roman are fairly complete fonts, and you might want to set the encoding to Unicode (UTF-8). -Amatulic (talk)

I also understand your thoughts on Marr and Kirkwood compilation of rankings, but, the majority of the site is outdated and as such does not provide a true ranking range. This year’s rankings have been very different especially with joint MBAs coming to their own; this has been especially reflected in Business Weeks and the FTs most recent rankings. I would then suggest that we create a new section called “Related Rankings Resources” and move Marr and Kirkwood, Official MBA Guide and Top 50 MBA programs to that section below MBA ranking resources.

Alphabetise the others and include “Forbes” as they are quite a major producer of rankings. What do you think? (No idea what to do with the Australian PDF though…)

Thank you for fixing my stupid delete mistake. I will keep an eye on that one.

Studio1st (talk) 02:48, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, too

Thanks for correcting the quotation mess I accidentally made but couldn't figure out how to fix. :-)David Justin (talk) 23:30, 26 December 2007 (UTC)