User talk:Jayen466/Archives/2012/August
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The Signpost: 30 July 2012
- News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; Telegraph's cheap shot at WP
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing
- Featured content: One of a kind
- Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
The Signpost: 06 August 2012
- News and notes: FDC portal launched
- Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
- Featured content: Casliber's words take root
- Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity
- WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts
The Signpost: 13 August 2012
- Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden
- Arbitration report: You really can request for arbitration
- Featured content: On the road again
- Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit
- WikiProject report: Dispute Resolution
- Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship
Peter Damian
Can you tell me, or point me to a summary of, what caused his banning, please? --Anthonyhcole (talk) 14:17, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
- this may be of help. KillerChihuahua?!? 14:22, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
- Cheers. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 14:59, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
- KillerChihuahua's link and the links given at the bottom of that section are a good start. Much of it seems to have concerned an alleged sock of FT2's that FT2 denied ownership of when he ran for a seat on the arbitration committee. Parts of the dispute took place on Wikipedia Review, where both FT2 and PD were members. I'll drop you a mail. --JN466 15:14, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
- The manifesto probably lost him a few brownie points too. :) That's an awesome list. I don't care for his intent, but the list is a fairly nice analysis of the project's vulnerabilities. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 15:29, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
- KillerChihuahua's link and the links given at the bottom of that section are a good start. Much of it seems to have concerned an alleged sock of FT2's that FT2 denied ownership of when he ran for a seat on the arbitration committee. Parts of the dispute took place on Wikipedia Review, where both FT2 and PD were members. I'll drop you a mail. --JN466 15:14, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
- Cheers. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 14:59, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
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Werner Erhard (book)
Hi Jayen466, Following discussions last March, I've finally got round to putting up a suggested re-write of the contents section of the above article on its Talk page. If you are still active on this topic, I'd welcome any comments or suggestions you may have. Thanks --DaveApter (talk) 13:15, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. JN466 09:24, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 August 2012
- In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia
- Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.
- Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension
- WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea
I'm sorry
Jayen466—I owe you an apology. I spoke in a way that you definitely did not deserve to be spoken to. I sincerely apologize, and I am embarrassed for my behavior. I crossed through my posts here and here with the hope of making amends. I respect you as an editor and it was way out of bounds for me to speak to you the way I did. Bus stop (talk) 13:59, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- No offence taken, Bus stop; and let me assure you this ain't personal. I think some of your editing is unhelpful, but I most certainly do respect you as a person, and suspect that if I walked in your shoes, I would most probably do as you do. Kind regards. --JN466 14:08, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
There seems to have been repeated unreferenced recreation of this page in English perhaps on the basis of there existing an article in the German wikipedia on the same subject. It has been noted that the German article is seemingly unreferenced itself, and might perhaps qualify for deletion, depending on the deletion criteria in the German wikipedia. You know German better than I do, and I would welcome your review of the situation in both languages and any input you might be able to offer. John Carter (talk) 00:14, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- It certainly looks unreferenced, and extremely puffy. It's also a quiet article; not much editing being done the last few years. He seems to be notable enough to have an entry in Skepdic. Will look further into it tomorrow. --JN466 01:50, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- Looking at Google Books, there are about 100 books referring to him [1][2] and a few dozen sources appear in Google Scholar [3] (note that most are not really serious scholarly sources though). He's a somewhat notable fringe scientist cum spiritual teacher. I'd be tempted to raise a DR, were it not for the fact that almost all of the sources (with perhaps a few very debatable exceptions like [4]) seem to be of very poor quality. --JN466 14:36, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 August 2012
- News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide
- Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?
- Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten
- WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: Doctor Who