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GUILLAUMIN Andrè was degree in Biology no in natural science, please give right information

The problem is that you wrote not correct information and for an Encyclopaedia this is not correct. GUILLAUMIN Andrè was degree in Biology not in natural sciences, so if you take the side for natural science faculty and contrast biological sciences faculty, this is your problem, but at Museum of natural history in France ( Bordaux ) there are degrees' certificates of GUILLAUMIN Andrè and he was degree in biology DrSc John Goddard —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.5.238.156 (talk) 17:18, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

What's the source for this? I'm happy to correct if if there is a source. You were making rapid changes with no explanation and no sources. Dougweller (talk) 17:30, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

WQA

Not familiar with the logistic of this nonsense. You know well it was a spelling error. I left a response. What now? Would I get some exposure? What is the recommendation? Thanks. Dr. Persi (talk) 03:43, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Just ignore it right now, you might have been better off just saying it was a typo, I'm not sure. Don't respond unless other editors get involved. Try to keep it short. Dougweller (talk) 06:32, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks man! Dr. Persi (talk) 20:36, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

List of oldest companies

Hello Doug. Please see my comment to SlimVirgin here about ArnaudMS adding the 1764 date for Bambu rolling papers at List of oldest companies. If I don't hear any advice to the contrary, I am planning to block ArnaudMS for disruptive editing. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 17:09, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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John Van Seters entry

This is in response to your remarks about my editing of this entry. I am the subject of this entry and I was trying to fill it out and make some useful revisions. Because it is my own career I think that I can safefully vouch for the material that I include. I did try to use at least a little of the original entry. I do not think that the 3 book reviews are particularly helpful. The two by Eckart Otto are simply attacks on my book because he is one of those whom I most strongly criticize. I do not see any good purpose in flooding the site with more favorable ones.

I obviously have not used the right format for the list of honours. Most of them are listed in Who's Who. Any suggestions would be helpful. I was urged by others to fill out my profile, but it looks like it is more difficlt that I imagined.

Jvanseters (talk) 19:23, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry if I'm sounding difficult, but as editors our own knowledge and experience can't be used. WP:VERIFY explains why. It's basic to the way we work. Dougweller (talk) 19:31, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Sasani2

What do you do about this? Alefbe (talk) 03:37, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

I've given them a warning. Dougweller (talk) 06:12, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Warning for what??? He's been sabotaging persian articles and reverting any edit that he doesnt like. He's ruined many articles and I could give many examples ... the man is an obsessed character & Wikipedia would be a better place with out the likes him. By the way i'm not surprised he made a complaint instead of dealing with the situation himself, very weak Sasani2 (talk) 08:06, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Then take it to WP:WQA. --Dougweller (talk) 17:13, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Age of Earth

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the clarification....I was yet to find the "talk" page, so had no idea why or what was going on with the page.

Tnx

cb25 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cb25 (talk • contribs) 03:20, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Btw ... I should add the reason for my multiple reversions was that I accidentally hit the "save" button instead of the "preview" button, and could not seem to get an error out of the text by simply editing it!

cb25 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cb25 (talk • contribs) 03:40, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, it's called 'Discussion' on the tab but it's an article talk page. Talk:Young Earth creationism Dougweller (talk) 06:13, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

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Page Issue

Hey Doughweller. I got a message on my page from MacRusgail, (an admin?) who is warning me about making disruptive edits to a certain page (which I found out is the page for Arabian Gulf Rugby Union). Arabian Gulf Rugby Union is the official name of that page and so should not be changed. Also a group of editors keep vandalizing it. Either going to call everything "Persian" or censoring the name of body of water which is commonly recognized as "Persian Gulf." Take a look at the page and tell me if I did anything wrong or not. He is threatening me with a ban, but I dont believe he understand my point. Dr. Persi (talk) 20:39, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure what's going on. He isn't an Admin (and Admin's can't check IP addresses for named accounts, only the CU clerks (who are Admins) can do that, eg I can't). I was going to ask on his page but I see you already have. The article is now protected against IP edits (although indefinitely is odd and very unusual), so some of that will stop. Dougweller (talk) 20:56, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your help man! Gotcha. Dr. Persi (talk) 21:32, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Doughweller, can you please take a look at my discussion page. I can not help but feel betrayed. I mean I try to the best of my abilities to follow wikipedia rules and regulations, I read extensively on what I type and always strive to achieve a middle ground and what I get for it is often paranoia and judgment. I am a bit offended by what McGail has put on my page, specially considering it is untrue and slanderous. I wont wana bitch about it, but is there a way to like, normalize that s*!$% on my page? I mean anybody reading my page now would think I am some 14 year old kid screwing with pages online and that hurts my pride as ridiculous as it sounds :\. Dr. Persi (talk) 23:04, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Except for a few things like unblock templates, you can remove anything from your talk page. Removal is assumed to show you read it. Archiving is preferred however in most cases, but you can just delete it. Dougweller (talk) 06:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice man! Dr. Persi (talk) 01:32, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Michael H. Hart

Thought you'd like to know that Tanbircdq did not add the original edits about Mr. Hart's asserted ethnic/religious heritage, that info was added in this edit on 22 June 2009 plus this edit on 8 April 2009. Shearonink (talk) 23:23, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, but if you look at his contributions, he's got an interest in Hart, he's edited Hart's article and one about his book. --Dougweller (talk) 05:54, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

From various edits in different articles I've picked up on what seems to be a particular worldview of this editor but was connecting this edit summary with this comment on the editor's talk page. Sorry about the mix-up. Shearonink (talk) 11:41, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem, but are you saying you see a problem with the editor? I've warned him for not using edit summaries, but I have wondered if this editor needs more attention. Dougweller (talk) 11:49, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

There's nothing in particular I can substantiate as needing action at this time. Shearonink (talk) 12:10, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Dougweller (talk) 12:28, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi sorry for the late reply to your messages, I didn't actually know Michael H. Hart is a racist until you pointed that out, however the list in The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a compelling read and also think that him being a 'racist' doesn't make the list any less credible because the last person a racist would put on their list would be the [[Prophet Muhammad] due to him preaching against discrimination and racism which was pravelant in pre-Islamic Arabia, and encouraged equality particually in his last sermon, therefore I don't see any bias in the list and don't see any reason why his book shouldn't be on the article to keep with neautrality.

Talkback

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Adminly stuff please

Doug, we have Orissa in the process of changing name to Odisha, but with that comes a lot of problems on wiki with everyone trying to change the references on wiki to the new name with no heed to WP:COMMONNAME or anachronism. However, what's worse is the language is also being renamed by the government from Oriya to Odia and this is finding it's way on to en.wiki. It's getting to be a little tiresome and I seem to be only one of a couple of people reverting this (and am not intent on taking adminly actions in these cases where I revert) can you suggest any other alternatives? We've had this discussion at WT:INB during the height of the change legislation, but it wasn't ever helpful as no one came by to clean up the mess. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 13:12, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Difficult. I see it was move-protected, which is obviously a good idea, but the problem seems to be changing the name within the article, right? Are you saying the name change will be ok after it becomes official, or that it still shouldn't take place because of WP:COMMONNAME? --Dougweller (talk) 14:12, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, wasn't clear; but the change is happening outside the article on pretty much everything that links to it. e.g. We use Madras/Bombay to refer to times when the city was named as such, not Chennai/Mumbai and so on. However, the bigger problem is the language - I'm really not sure how a governmental change of name would trump what the language is commonly known as? Also, from what I've seen the (and I could be wrong, so I'm not basing my judgment on this), the bill is still pending approval from the Rajya Sabha, which is reflected in the fact that the state still calls itself Orissa. As far as changing within the article (not title), I think sourcing the changes should be fine as long as one doesn't go ahead and change without consideration to the time etc in reference. However, changing externally in other articles etc should reflect the common name, right? cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 14:28, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I agree. However, I find there are groups of articles where it seems impossible to maintain our guidelines and polices. School articles come to mind, clan articles are another. It looks as though there may be so many articles related to this name change that there's no way to do anything about it. Monitoring them would be hard enough, and trying to stave off changes made by many editors, a large proportion probably IPs? It seems a mammoth task. Do you have an 'adminly' solution I could consider? Dougweller (talk) 14:38, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I've pretty much given up on the caste/clan business as long as they don't spread their tentacles to mainstream articles. Dab and I've had a few discussions on what to do, but basically they need something that's outside of mainstream Wikipedia view. See one example at WT:INB currently. Back to the matter at hand, I'm really not sure what to do, I was hoping you might have some ideas, an edit filter to prevent non-autoconfirmed changes on this and flag autoconfirmed changes maybe? We had something similar happen when there was the proposal to split Andhra Pradesh and lots of places were being renamed as being in Telengana and so on. State splits, name changes etc happen too often and are a big headache. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 17:32, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I don't think enough about edit filters, yes, that would probably be a good idea, but I'm not the one to ask - maybe Nawlinwiki? He knows about edit filters. I've been putting quite a few articles onto pending changes. Dougweller (talk) 17:45, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Should there be some bureaucratic discussion before an edit filter is requested? I'll check with Nawlinwiki on the feasibility of one for this, it will come in handy for the numerous name and territory changes that we're prone to get on India related articles. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 07:09, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

No need for a bureaucratic discussion so far as I know, in fact I thought we could create our own. Dougweller (talk) 08:18, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Tobacco articles

I read your post on worlds oldest companies page.. I agree there is a "torch of truth" there. Nahome wasn't linked, but proven to be using an account, pretending to be a woman, and was IP proven to work from a tobacco company by slim virgin.. Neither myself nor any of the other parties involved have been linked in any way to work for one whatsoever. Nahome removing the company from the list was a tongue and cheek way to slander a business/company/brand, do you not agree?--ArnaudMS (talk) 16:39, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

1548 Codex

I have addressed the issue on the Codex Escalada talk page. Mamalujo (talk) 19:46, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Why did you delete my edit on Doctor of Literature?

Why did you delete my edit ? -- Kapil.Xerox — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kapil.xerox (talk • contribs) 00:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

All the names there have Wikipedia articles, he does not. By the way, you seem to have spelled his name wrong. I think it is Bhadresh Swami, not Badresh. I don't think we can even have an article on him, I can't find any sources meeting our criteria at WP:RS that would indicate he meets our criteria of notability (which I hope you know as you say he is). --Dougweller (talk) 06:44, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

The article is not Doctor of Literature but Doctor of Letters by the way, and besides the fact he would at least need an article I can't find any reliable sources saying this degree was awarded or any sources saying who awarded it. Dougweller (talk) 07:35, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Semyon Ioffe

Thanks for all of your help in fixing the articles I posted. I'm still very new at this so I need all the help I can get. I started my first wiki project about these 2 research scientists and the technologies they discovered. There is a tremendous amount of information available about both men however it is all in Russian so I have been doing my best to translate pieces from all over to create all of these articles. Any help you provide here is really appreciated. Much of the information available on the technologies themselves are not published as they are still in testing phases with homeland security. I'm just trying to make as much of the information public. I see that the page I made for Semyon Ioffe sounds like a resume, I will change it today however I believe I did a very good job with the Semantic Stimuli Response Measurement page. Can you please let me know specifically why it has been nominated for deletion so I can improve it? Finally the redirect you made from Psychoecology to Ecopsychology is actually incorrect. The 2 things have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Psychoecology is the field of science that ensures the healthy ecology of the mind through use of varied psychotechnologies and their associative methods. I would like your help in re-establishing this article. Psychoecology was a field of science that Dr. Igor Smirnov created, it and Ecopsychology are not the same. Thank you for your time, its hard to learn the system by oneself. --Newyork48 (talk) 15:59, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

The term psychoechology can be found in the literature before Smirnov used it, have you done a search? And I can't find it in Google Books or Google scholar when I combine it with Smirnov. The redirect it to the normal use of the term. The fact that Smirnov uses it differently doesn't change this so far as I can tell. I can find nothing mentioning "Semantic stimuli response measurement" in the literature. Dougweller (talk) 16:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Omniverse Theory

I am an amateur scientist who has been working on an original theory of the universe for the past 10 years using the internet as my primary research tool. My attempts to publish on Wickipedia have been inappropriate through lack of understanding of the system, and I sincerely apologize. The two objections raised about my insertions have been the link to the Omniverse Theory website, being not a valid citation and a possible conflict of interest. The link is a valid citation because it is the only authorized source of the theory and we cannot publish the propositions on Wickipedia and keep copyright to the propositions. In our view there is no conflict of interest either, as we are simply releasing a new theory to the public domain.

Below is the entry I would like to submit. I look forward to your comments of how this might be published at Wikipedia. Dubadeca (talk) 17:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

PREMISE OF THE OMNIVERSE THEORY

The physical universe is composed of electrons and positrons which are two and three dimensional energy quanta periodically cycling through singularity inducing opposite monopole charges which are attracted to opposite charge and repelled by like charge induced in the same instant

The universe is embedded in a three dimensional field of positive charge trapped by two dimensional membranes which store and project dynamic holograms into trapped field charge guiding natural processes and the development, behavior and evolution of embedded life forms

Antimatter universes with mirrored properties embedded in negative field charge are connected to our universe by membrane wormholes appearing as embedded super massive black holes from each polarity universe

The omniverse theory was published Dec 22, 2010 and the first ten propositions of the theory are available for PDF download at http://omniversetheory.com

Thank you very much for this message. The problem is that Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for new ideas. Have you read WP:NOR? All our articles must follow that policy and the policy at WP:VERIFY (see also WP:RS. There is simply no way we can accept an article on this. Dougweller (talk) 17:42, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for information on this topic. New ideas can be submitted to Wikipedia by credible third part sources, according to Wikipedia criterion:

Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, usually in articles about themselves or their activities, without the requirement in the case of self-published sources that they be published experts in the field, so long as:

1.the material is not unduly self-serving; 2.it does not involve claims about third parties; 3.it does not involve claims about events not directly related to the source; 4.there is no reasonable doubt as to its authenticity; 5.the article is not based primarily on such sources.

Bosnian pyramid

Can I get your opinion regarding this edit and this discussion here at Talk:Bosnian pyramids#"Scientific investigations"? Heiro 18:54, 21 January 2011 (UTC)