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Alternative illustration

Hi Hypocritus. I've suggested here an alternative illustration for the Inflammation article, in response to your comment on the talk page. Anthony (talk) 09:47, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony, Thank you for changing the greeting photo for the Inflammation wikipage, in response to my Talk: request. Hypocritus (talk) 11:56, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page chat

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. I am glad to see that you are discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages such as Talk:Faster-than-light are for discussion related to improving the article, not general discussion about the topic. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 09:01, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please note that calling other contributors "trolls", as you did in this edit, is interpreted as a wp:personal attack, and is not tolerated. Please avoid doing that in the future. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 10:15, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DVdm, I did not call anyone a troll. I said "I believe that you are being a troll." I specifically worded it as such, so as to not place a permanent judgement upon the person. Of course he is not a troll. However it would have been better for me to state, "I believe that you are behaving like a troll." A troll is anyone who hovers over or under what they perceive to be their own territory, and attacks or defends in a manner than is not diplomatic. There are times when I might fit that definition. However, lack of discussion and being rudely dismissed are certainly as offensive as me expressing my opinion about the other's negative discussion methods (or the being a troll remark). I have received both offenses from both Trovatore and you, DVdm.

I find it difficult to believe that anyone who has a present mind for physics could have read the section in question, then read my remarks in the Talk discussion page, and still decided that the section in question stands up to both scientific reasoning and sound grammatical presentation. But I have yet to make an edit to the actual article! The only defense raised by Trovatore is "abstractions are perfectly capable of traveling faster than light." Unfortunately, this litmus test destroys the "laser light beam" and the faster-than-light "spot of light" from being able to validly participate in the article, and casts an even greater shadowy doom upon the proposed "FLT shadows", which only form after the light is taken away. If we were talking about "abstractions", why are "shadows" even being brought up??? Instead, you assert that, not only should the statements in the erroneous section remain as they were, but you shore them up all the more zealously by finding other "sources" -- thereby erroneously assuming to "make your information the more valid" -- to place in the incorrect section.

You also end your dismissive remarks to me with phrases like, "Good luck" and "Happy reading and good luck. Cheers". This is at least as inaproppriate as me expressing my opinion about someone's lack of discussion, diplomacy, or present strength of reason.

You also speak authoritatively and dismissively on behalf of the Wikipedia community, as if I were not part of it. You will see, at some period, that this is incorrect and inappropriate. --Hypocritus (talk) 02:45, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use talk pages for inappropriate discussion, as you did at Talk:Faster-than-light, you may be blocked from editing. I repeat, you really have come to the wrong place. A Wikipedia article talk page is not the place to come and learn about a subject, let alone argue that properly sourced content of the article is wrong. The phrase in question now has four reliable sources, and if you need more books, then try this and this. You only need to look at one page of our policies: wp:verifiability. Read that. If you have a question about something in article, then you really must go to the reference desk. You will get a good explanation over there. I am going to remove you most recent comments from the article talk page. And by the way, here on Wikipedia saying that "you believe that someone is being a troll" is exactly the same as saying that "someone is a troll". You migt not like that, but it is the way it goes. Please take some time reading the links here on top of this page. - DVdm (talk) 07:47, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]