User talk:Sjb90/Archive 1

Archive 1

Doxbridge

The debate continues :-) It seems to have moved over to Oxbridge and Talk:Oxbridge now; though I've just made a big edit that I hope will clear it up. TSP 01:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Your most recent edit is extremely balanced -- nice work there! As long as people take a deep breath before reaching for their computer keyboard I would have thought that this would be a decent compromise :o) I'll keep an eye on it, but give me a shout if you think I can be of help! Sjb90 11:25, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Ely

I notice you worked on a page for the city of Ely. Could you tell me whether you did any of the work on the section concerning Oliver Cromwell as the information listed there I have confirmed as being wrong by a local historian. According to this person the house in which Oliver Cromwell resided was dated by Dendochronology back to the year 1300 or thereabouts. Can we possibly get this checked??? tmalmjursson

Hi there! I didn't actually supply any of the information about Cromwell (that appears to have been provided by the anonymous User:131.111.179.2, using a computer at the Cambridge Programme for Industry. However looking at the Tourist Information website, it appears that areas of the building date from different periods. For example, one doorway appears to date from the 13th century, a nearby window dates from the 15th century, and Cromwell's office dates from the 17th century. It might be worth incorporating some of the information from this page into the article -- maybe even asking Tourist Information in Ely for more information? -- Sjb90 18:44, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Psychology Wiki

The Logo for the Psychology Wiki.

Hi SJB,

I noticed that you are a research psychologist, and thought you might be interested in this project which I am involved in, The Psychology Wiki.

I won't say too much, as I'd like you to judge it for yourself, but you should find that it is different from Wikipedia, because approximately 90% of our contributors so far are professional psychologists, academics, or students and trainees.

Its hosted by a company called Wikia, which was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. There are Google Ads on the site, but we dont make money from the project, they're just to pay for the bandwidth, storage and technical support that Wikia give us.

Have a look and see what you think

Mostly Zen 23:55, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Sedley

Hmmm....actually I hadn't paid it much attention since I put the speedy-AfD thing up there and usually the article disappears within an hour or two. The really odd thing is that I don't see anything in the history where it got changed from my speedy-afd to what it is now. But anyways, I think it could be turned into a passable article, but since I couldn't really find anything online on the town (other than the fact that it exists) I put the del tag on there... I'll give it a shot tho!

P.S. If you ask me a question, am I supposed to respond on my page or yours? Because...it would make sense for me to respond where you ask the question, on my page, but if I do that, there's no guarantee that you'll return to see my answer. Banpei 23:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Haha -- yes, I know the problem: either post on the other person's talk page, and end up with a very disjointed conversation, or post on your own, and risk them never noticing... You've got more experience on Wikipedia (in terms of edits, at least) than me, but I understand the convention to be always replying on the same page, so that there's some form of message threading going on. With any luck you'll notice this, as a result! :-p

Will head over to support your delete request now... -- Sjb90 00:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Uh...heh...I can't really figure out how to put it on the AfD page like it's supposed to. I can't figure out how to format it so that it appears like all the other nominates... You seem pretty proficient with all that, can you take a stab at it? Banpei 07:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Ok maybe I should elaborate. I can't get it onto this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2007_May_29 without everything going to hell. Banpei 07:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Hehe -- now sorted, I think! I believe the thing that was causing you hassle was that the afd2 template wasn't at the top of the deletion discussion page, so the summary page didn't quite know what to do...

And crikey -- since I looked at your userpage last night you appear to have shunted from an MPhil to a PhD. One more night and you'll be going for a professorship... :o) -- Sjb90 07:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Heh...yeah...I actually hadn't updated that page in a while, and I just learned how to tool around with userboxes as well, so hence the change. As for that AfD...I hate confrontations and condecension. I think this is why I stick to reverting vandals.... Banpei 10:22, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Yep, I only started playing around with userboxes yesterday as well -- decided there wasn't enough meaningless clutter on my page... Ummm, isn't it some absurdly early hour of the day over in Illinois at the moment? Totally with you on the AfD -- I was slightly taken aback by some of the replies; sorry for encouraging you to list the article on that page: I'm feeling rather guilty now! -- Sjb90 10:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, if you want the entire story, I just finished my Master's thesis (finally) in San Francisco, but this July I'm moving to Chicago to go to NU for my PhD. So technically I guess I'm jumping ahead of myself on my userboxes. =P And yes, I am up at absurdly odd hours...hehe And don't worry about the AfD...in the back of my head I knew something wasn't right about putting an entire community up for deletion. I guess I should've read the rules. And I noticed you're from Cambridge, are you a Cambridge United fan? One of those "things to do before I die" is go to a Premiership game. Although i think you guys have been regulated quite a bit down... Banpei 21:41, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh I do the odd hours thing too -- I always wish that sleep wasn't necessary! Or at least, I can never seem to persuade myself to get to bed ... but then have trouble getting back out again in the morning :-p Congrats on going off to do the PhD by the way -- I toyed with the idea of applying to do mine in the States, but then decided to take the wimpy way out and just do one in three years over here. Your whole university system sounds a lot more rigorous...

As for Cambridge United, I'm less a fan of football and more a fan of hunky football players :-p So I think that they play in yellow and black kit ... but I'm afraid that's as far as I go in terms of following them! I'm far more of a tennis fan -- off to see Wimbledon later this year -- hurrah! Maybe I should add live point-by-point updates to Wikipedia via my mobile... -- Sjb90 23:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Are you kidding? 3 years for a PhD? Jeez...I'm in the wrong country. At Northwestern it's gonna take me at least 5 years. It's gonna....suck. Cambridge is pretty prestidgious though! Hehe have fun at Wimbledon! Banpei 06:16, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Awwww, you'll love it really. I think it's just that PhDs here are entirely research-based -- there's no formal teaching per se (and when I was looking at some US universities, the thing that really put me off was having to do sport in the first year in some places!). I'm sure in practice you come out with a better education your way though! Incidentally, re. "I knew something wasn't right about putting an entire community up for deletion", you do know that deleting a community on Wikipedia doesn't actually cause it to be exterminated in real life, right? :-p hehehe -- that'd be taking Wikipedia:Consensus too far... -- Sjb90 06:51, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the PhD that I'm gonna be doing is all research based too, the med campus is based about 10 miles away from the main campus where the undergrads are, so we don't get a chance to teach them stuff. (or push them around) And...sport? In the first year? You mean like...baseball? Or do you guys have some other meaning for it than we do? LOL if the requirement was to play a game of ping-pong I don't think I'd be as stressed about it as I am now! Hehe and yeah, I know Sedley, Saskatchewan doesn't actually disappear. I'm pretty sure a small town in southern Canada is burning me in effigy now though! Tho, I guess on the plus side, I know how to spell "Saskatchewan" now. =) Banpei 08:08, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

You don't get to push around all the undergrads (or, in some cases, admire them)? Well where's the fun in that?! Heh -- fair enough re sport, perhaps compulsory sport isn't a part of all American PhDs then -- that's a relief... :o) -- Sjb90 21:23, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Starscapes

Oh thanks - yeah I like to go to CAT:CCSD and see if I can help anyone out - I usually figure that if a person takes the time not only to write the article- but also to stay with it and put a hangon tag on it when it's marked - then the article might be worth taking a look at. Although, while I would never tell the user this - I too kinda agree with you that the article may be a bit to spammy - and also it might violate WP:Notable as it has no references. But again, thanks for the kind comments - I really appreciate them! Hope to see you around, --danielfolsom 21:48, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey sorry it took me like, days to respond. Regardless of what you say on your userpage I think it's absolute crap that these guys are vandalizing ... if anything depending on what you mean, I would commend you for being a pedant. I'll watch your userpage and revert whenever I can, and if a patern develops then it's probably one user/ip - and then we can just go to wP:ANI--danielfolsom 04:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Haha, yeah, that comes with the territory. Although you never now, maybe if another admin had looked at it he/she would've been "duped" into thinking they're "legit" - I have to admit I was almost buying it, I mean with a powerful statement like that! --danielfolsom 11:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Sure! We'll go to the main page's talk page - and if everyone says no - we'll say there's a conspiracy theory/cable! --danielfolsom 11:58, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Null hypothesis

Response at User_talk:Lindsay658#Null_hypotheses. Hope it helps.Lindsay658 22:39, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

From my point of view, you have really clarified things!!! Well done.

By the way, do you think that this notion of offering up the opposite and, then, disproving it in order to prove that whatever it was that was your original core intention is some sort of vestige of the device known as reductio ad absurdum?

By this I mean, you intellectually take the position that A is true, and then you offer up a claim that the opposite of A is true, and then proceed, step by step to demonstrate, per medium of the reductio ad absurdum move, that the opposite of A is untenable -- and, by this process, you clearly demonstrate that, in virtue of the fact that the opposite of A is impossible, that the opposite of the opposite of A (in other words, the original A itself) must, from this, be entirely true.Lindsay658 03:02, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks -- glad you're happy with it.

An interesting idea there -- though wouldn't it be great if it were ever possible to prove an experimental hypothesis with statistics? I guess that's the luxury that mathematicians have -- save for the possibility of a Cartesian evil genius, it's actually possible to prove things in mathematics in the way that experimental scientists never can... -- Sjb90 10:23, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Sjb90! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Daniel 07:11, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Notability

Yeah, I do agree that it's not very notable. I guess when I created it over a year ago I considered it notable, who knows? GeorgeMoney (talk) 19:46, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

BPS

As the other member of the category entitled Wikipedians in the British Psychological Society, I would like to know your views on the proposals to delete or to rename this category (you can leave a note on my userpage). -- ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:40, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the message on my userpage

HI Sjb90, I just thought I would thank you for leaving the message on my userpage. I expect that there are other Wikipedians who do belong to the British Psychological Society, but who do not get around to putting themselves in the category under discussion. Then again, much as I do find myself addicted to Wikipedia, I do sometimes think it a pity that there are certain topics (such as politics or popular media culture) that get edited and updated more frequently than the article on psychology!

I see from userpage that your psychological interests relate to autism, so I presume that you are intererested in developmental psychology. My specialisms in psychology would be elsewhere - in social psychology (especially social cognition and the psychology of altruism, the psychology of later life, the psychology of religion and transpersonal psychology, for example. Good luck with any proposed research you do into altruism - I am sure it will be very interesting. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:03, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

A new Oxbridge user box

Sjb90...I am currently in the process of writing a user box for all of the colleges that are part of Oxbridge. This template is meant to replace your current college template. Please take a look at the work in progress and comment on it. My main concerns are college abbreviations and color choice. I am using scarf colors for the colleges. Thank you. - LA @ 17:27, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

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